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...lifestyle moves from the literature of our childhood, some sentimental tie remains. But “nothing below their waist” is no longer the central mantra of successful children’s lit, provoking a backlash in recent years. The 1996 winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain??s equivalent of the Newbery Prize, was Melvin Burgess’ “Junk,” a novel about a group of heroin-addicted, anarchy-loving teenagers living on the streets. Apparently worried about seeming too bourgeois, Burgess also included a scene of forced prostitution. Keep...
...verb.Adjaye, the Graduate School of Design’s Tange visiting professor in architecture, was born in 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—just years after the country gained independence from the United Kingdom. Adjaye moved to London to finish his education and has become one of Britain??s leading architects. “African Cities” shows roughly 40 photographs each of 10 capital cities Adjaye snapped in his travels to the western, southern, and eastern regions of the continent. Many African capitals seem wracked with the same problems: a previous architectural tradition hijacked...
Harvard Medical School honored Prince Charles with the Global Environmental Citizen Award in New York last week, recognizing his decades of work promoting environmental sustainability. But the prince of Wales drew flak from environmental activists, including Britain??s Green Party and the country’s environment secretary, for contributing to global warming by flying to New York, according to British news reports. Referencing the criticism, Charles opened his speech by joking, “I must warn you that I am in fact a video recording. I have only made a ‘virtual?...
...much-improved underneath pass defense, spearheaded by first-year starting linebacker Bobby Abare ’09, whose four interceptions lead the Ivy League. As Dawson stands on the Harvard sideline during Yale possessions, wunderkind Mike McLeod ’09, from hard-hittin’ New Britain??not Canada, eh?—will reveal the Big Ten washout and his rushing record for the old news that they already...
...meat of Langguth’s book is the buildup that culminated in the War of 1812. Regarding the escalating tensions between America and Britain??manifested in the tense naval skirmish between the Chesapeake and Leopard in 1807—Jefferson is quoted as saying, “never since the battle of Lexington have I seen the country in such a state of exasperation...