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...where they came from. Being an Old Etonian won't be that relevant." But being a New Etonian could very well turn out to be. For years, many of modern Britain's proud meritocrats have thought of the school as a four-letter word, typifying everything that was wrong about a class-bound society, a generator of snobs who didn't deserve yet another benefit from a nation that had long awarded life's glittering prizes to those who were lucky enough to have been born to land, money, privilege or all three. But Eton is having a makeover...
Rick Shannon senses that something is wrong when the retired record producers he has been hired to find keep turning up freshly murdered--one with a fork still sticking out of his back. Shannon is a weeknight DJ at a classic-rock station in Vicksburg, Miss., who runs a detective agency by day. The case that drives this Southern-fried page-turner revolves around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced...
Which was more interesting: walking the red carpet at the Oscars or ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ? Walking the carpet. But don't get me wrong--I think I made history being the first rapper to ring the bell. I don't think I understood the importance of it until after I did it, so it didn't seem as exciting as everyone made...
Your selection of photographs from Congo is simply devastating. Why is the world so silent? The U.S. is spending billions of dollars fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but to what avail? If the Bush Administration really cares about establishing democracy around the world, it is concentrating on the wrong region. KRIS SAHAY Winnipeg...
...Viewpoint column on the Enron verdicts by the company's whistle-blower, Sherron Watkins [June 5]. I agree with her argument that humility is a basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often he invokes Scripture, Enron's founder, Ken Lay, will never learn that stealing is wrong until he finds some of that elusive characteristic. But there is hope: some people learn that valuable lesson in prison. GARY ROE Santa Cruz, Calif...