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The Lowdown: As rambling and leisurely as a walk through the English countryside, Nicholson's cultural history is confident in its lack of consequence. Essentially a collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and...
"It was never about money - never about her bloody art collection," the Daily Mirror reported him as saying. "I just wanted to settle it and move on."
For Europe's great and good, this will not be easy. Europeans love thinking about America, part in longing, part in envy, part in disdain. You could spend a nice year trotting from Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire to Salzburg, from the Italian lakes to German castles, doing nothing but ponder...
Unlike other universities with long-standing polo traditions like Cornell and the University of Virginia, Harvard faces several key disadvantages, including a practice space that is at least 40 minutes away from campus and a stable of only 14 horses, sufficient to host home games, but incomparable to Cornellâ?...
The National Book Awards don't have as large an impact on book sales as the Pulitzer Prize or Oprah's seal of approval, but the honor remains highly sought after nonetheless. This year's finalists include Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil...