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...hero is Sam Obeysekere, a Ceylonese lawyer educated at Oxford who, with his genteel Western airs, is seemingly bent on out-Englishing the English. His story takes some time to reveal itself as a mystery, but it does so when Obeysekere takes on the case of a respectable English planter--Hamilton--who gets shot in the chest. "Murder, a moonless night, the jungle crowding close...
Ansel A. Payne '04 is burying bulbs in a planter on the floor of his bedroom. “When I was two, my dad held me over the pigpen back home and said, ‘If you don’t stop crying, I’m going to feed you to the pigs,’” says the Quincy House senior...
...contract between government and the governed that was founded on the consent of the people. Jefferson also, it should be noted, borrowed freely from the phrasings of others, including the resounding Declaration of Rights in the new Virginia constitution that had just been drafted by his fellow planter George Mason, in a manner that today might subject him to questions of plagiarism but back then was considered not only proper but learned...
...when its shelf life is finished. The first item, a dishwasher-safe cup, made its debut at Milan's furniture fair last week. The cup slowly degrades as it is used and washed. After about four years, it will begin to crack. At that point, turn it into a planter or bury it, and it will slowly break down. They're €22 for four. Next up: salad bowls, espresso cups and platters. - By Lauren Goldstein/Milan
...most charming of states, Louisiana, stands one of the most inviting bed-and-breakfasts, the Madewood Plantation House on the Bayou Lafourche in Napoleonville, just 75 miles from New Orleans. The second largest plantation house in the state, Madewood was built by a sugar-cane planter, Colonel Thomas Pugh, 15 years before the Civil War began. The house is now owned by Keith Marshall, whose parents so expertly rebuilt and restored Madewood 26 years ago that it has come to represent the quintessential plantation home in several movies, including A Woman Called Moses...