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...positiveness in opinion or of direct contradiction were," he recalled, "prohibited under small pecuniary penalties." It was a style he would urge upon the Constitutional Convention 60 years later, and he would wryly say of disputing: "Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh...
DEBORAH FRANKLIN: THE AFFECTIONATE WIFE Deborah and Ben had a close marriage, except for the fact that for 18 of the 44 years of their union they lived apart. But even if their bond lacked grand passion, it had mutual respect. Plain and plump, Deborah, a carpenter's daughter, is first taken with the young printer when he begins lodging with her family shortly after his arrival in Philadelphia in 1723. They, as Benjamin put it, "interchang'd some promises"--an 18th century locution for engagement--a year later as he set off for England to buy printing equipment...
...Weiss's proud family is in the third pew. In minutes she will be called to the Torah to chant from the sixth chapter of the Book of Numbers, her rite of passage into full Jewish adulthood. One is tempted to say, "Today Elaine Weiss is a woman," except that she has been one a while: she is 62. Nearby sit five other Temple Israel Bat Mitzvah girls (and a Bar Mitzvah boy), ranging from their 30s to their 70s. Today they are...happy...
...Others are drawn by the convenience and low cost. A traditional funeral runs about $5,800, with burial fees adding $2,000 more. Cremation costs about $1,000. Cremated remains--called cremains in industry lingo--can be kept at home in urns, buried on family property (in all states except California) or scattered...
Citing safety concerns, Lewis issued a memo last month prohibiting any use of the roughly 1,700 fireplaces in the Houses, except those in the suites of House masters and senior tutors. Fireplaces in Yard dorms have been covered up since the early 1990s, according to Zachary M. Gingo, manager of administrative operations for Harvard Yard...