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Byline: William Norwich
Although most young women of her circumstances would be splashing in the social waters of Southampton or Malibu today, Diana Mellon sits this Fourth of July morning at the kitchen table in her family's cavernous, unfussy apartment on upper Fifth Avenue and stares into the screen of her PowerBook.
Recovering from yesterday's dental surgery, managed during a break in her summer job in the curatorial department of the Frick Collection, this descendant of the American industrialist Andrew Mellon is breakfasting on soy milk and pondering the next paragraph of an essay about the Irish playwright Conor McPherson due tomorrow at Yale, ...