Word: englandã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Resounding criticism has come from all sides for this blatant effort on the part of Blair and New Labour to pack the Chamber with their supporters. There is also a question as to how accurately the new picks will accurately reflect England??s population: when the government set to the task of naming 15 “people’s peers” they sure looked to be inclusive—selecting seven people who had already been knighted and varied corporate executives...
...mere 150 years ago—Harvard and its long-standing academic rival Yale competed in the nation’s first intercollegiate sporting event—a crew race held on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. True to form and satisfying to our modern mock-hatred of New England??s finest safety school, Harvard prevailed over Yale and began a sports rivalry for the ages...
...benefit, she did not read the phone book, though, but rather an involving piece by Peter Ho Davies, “Think of England.” Set in Wales during World War II, “Think of England?? reveals the tension behind interactions between Welsh and English, provincials and soldiers, men and women. Pidgeon, raised in Scotland, slipped gradually into British vowels as she read the dialogue. Her unassuming reading allowed the subtlety of Davies’ writing to do its work, presenting a young Welsh girl yearning for a life beyond her provincial town...
...parity of the weekend games was encouraging for the Crimson as it prepares for tomorrow’s game at No. 15 Northeastern, New England??s top-ranked team, and the resumption of the Ivy schedule on Saturday at Cornell, Harvard’s last Ivy opponent before it welcomes seven-time defending Ivy champion No. 5 Princeton to its home turf a week later...
...special issue of England??s Smash Hits magazine has ranked 17-year-old Prince Harry the 11th sexiest man in Britain. Prince William, his older brother, didn’t get a mention at all in the list, which has been on newsstands...