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...wins were especially sweet for Hulbert and Kaye, who were coming off disappointing defeats at Trinity. Kaye was in command of her match all the way, defeating Brown's Sue Cutler by scores...
RONALD REAGAN picked Bush in 1980 to balance his grass-roots Western conservatism with some Eastern Establishment moderatism. Selecting a vice president a vice president to balance the ticket is hardly new: the party nominee almost always chooses the potential second-in-command more for ideological or geographical appeal than for talent or expertise. This year's prematurely gleeful Democrats all too readily dissected their female candidate into the politically relevant pieces: woman, mother of three, Roman Catholic, Italian, liberal Democrat, and New Yorker...
...cementing loyalties to certain "elite" forces which fought with particular bravery against them, the famed Gurkhas being the best example. These Indian units, often led by British officers, fought around the world for the British Empire throughout the century before 1947. The importance of this experience, under British command and training, for the future armed forces of free India cannot be overestimated. Many of the officers and traditions of these elite units were transferred en masse to the vastly expanded native Indian forces created during the British mobilization for both World Wars...
Unlike many of his colleagues. Weaver is reluctant to consult with authors about obscurities in their books, or even to show them his work in progress, unless they have perfect command of English. He has good reasons. Five years ago, one author complained that Weaver had used the word cot instead...
...only works subject to constant reinterpretation. Some modern books have gone through several translations. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, dissatisfied with some of the first English versions of his works, insisted upon new ones as soon as he emigrated to the U.S. Other demanding authors, who possess a greater command of foreign tongues, have decided that self-translation is best. Nabokov, whose early work was written in Russian, rendered Laughter in the Dark into English. He also turned Lolita, which was written in English, into Russian. Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who writes mostly in French, has translated his plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame...