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...fact, the show (produced by David S. Jewett ’08, Roy A. Kimmey III ’09, and Mary Eleanor Stebbins ’08) cultivates an anachronistic air throughout all its aspects, starting with the solemn playing of the British national anthem at the show’s beginning. Getting into this late-19th-century mindset is perhaps advisable if one wants to comfortably enjoy a musical whose Japanese characters have names such as Nanki...
Without the anomaly of an unscheduled summer, I would never have been able to read the novel. The British company Orion Books claims to have found a solution for busy people like myself. This spring, it began to publish ultra-abridged versions of classics like “Anna Karenina,” shortening them to about half their original size and advertising them as great books “in half the time.” The goal is to trim away all excess verbiage, jettison any pointless asides, and streamline prose so that it follows a more straightforward...
India has witnessed massacres of her own. On April 13, 1919, Brigadier General Reginald Dyer of the British Army fired into a crowd of more than 3,000 unarmed protestors in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. The official number of dead was 379, but independent accounts put the number between...
...Gibbons is being kept at a secure location, although British officials are concerned that demonstrators could try to track her down. "She has been visited by consular staff today and is fine," said a spokesman for the British embassy...
...case is an embarrassment for the Sudanese government, whose policies in Darfur have helped make it an international pariah. But the government is hamstrung by extremist elements, who will capitalize on any perception that Khartoum is bowing to British pressure, said Professor Elteyb Hag Ateya, director of Khartoum University's peace research institute...