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...Diane (she pronounced it Dee-ann) Nemerov in New York City in 1923. Her father was the director of Russek's, a Manhattan fur and fashion emporium that had been founded by her mother's family and made them rich. Arbus, her younger sister Renee and her older brother Howard--later a U.S. poet laureate--grew up on Park Avenue. She spoke once of realizing the existence of another world, a forbidden zone, when her nanny took her to Central Park to see a shantytown built there by unemployed...
...forcing out Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The mutiny was smooth and quick. After the hapless Iain Duncan Smith - who had failed utterly to exploit Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq problem - was shown the door, the normally intrigue-prone Tory M.P.s quickly rallied behind one man: shadow chancellor Michael Howard, 62, who seems likely to become leader this week unopposed. But can this football-loving lawyer do any better than Duncan Smith? Howard, the son of Jewish immigrants, has sharp elbows and broad experience in government. He held Cabinet jobs both under Thatcher and her successor, John Major. A quick...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. ... Spell of the Phoenix The latest Harry Potter book has had an unexpected effect on young fans. Pediatrician Howard J. Bennett, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported an outbreak of headaches among children reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Bennett attributed their ailment - which he dubbed "Hogwarts headaches" - to the eight-hour reading sessions the young enthusiasts put in as they plowed through the 870-page tome. Fortunately, the symptoms clear up a day or two after the patient finishes the book...
Inboxes across the University are filled with e-mails from advisors to Democratic candidates Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, but the requests often have multiple motives...
...know that as long as I have my wits about me I won’t forget that perfect blue September registration day my sophomore year. I won’t forget lying in bed and hearing Howard Stern interrupt his Pamela Anderson anecdote to say that something dreadful had happened. I won’t forget immediately calling my blockmates to have them come up to my room and watch the towers collapse in on themselves in the most horrifyingly stunning display in television history. I won’t forget rushing to The Crimson, thinking that I could...