Word: ernestness
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Lady luck has always seemed to smile on Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde. Born into the wealthy De Wendel family, inheritors of an 18th century iron and steel dynasty, Seillière rose effortlessly through the ranks of France's ruling élite. After taking his degree from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he launched a promising diplomatic career, served on the staffs of two Prime Ministers and seemed destined for a privileged life in the upper echelons of the French civil service...
...accounts he was calm. He looked in the eyes of the witnesses - the media, his lawyers, and those whose lives he had forever and horrifically altered. He gave no statement, but he had copied out "Invictus," William Ernest Henley's ode to Victorian conquest, which contains the famous line, "I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul...
...just moved to Cambridge, so she really didn't know where she was going," Ernest says. "Her apartment was on Harvard Street, and she started walking towards Harvard Square...
...Three weeks later, after having dinner with her at the Klappers' house, Ernest decided that he would ask her out. "I walked her home with a bunch of people, and they wouldn't leave to give me any privacy. We hung out till 2:30 a.m. Finally the last person went into the bathroom, and I asked her then...
...asked her the ultimate question on Aug. 31 of last year during a visit to Cornell. The two are marrying in Rachel's home city of Chicago on July 1, to be followed by a honeymoon in Paris. In the fall, they will move to New Haven, where Ernest will attend Yale Medical School and Rachel will commute to the University of Connecticut Law School...