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...favored to become the first side from the northern hemisphere to win the Cup - the only reservation stemming from the apparent flaw in the mentality of English sports teams generally. "For so many years, this country has never quite gone the distance in major sporting events," said winger Jason Robinson. But this side looks confident. "I'd find it unbearable if the Poms won," says Farr-Jones, "but frankly, I can't see a weakness." Many of us needn't worry about these notions of victory and failure. The Rugby World Cup is best experienced less as a series...
...Michael K (1983), the first of his two Booker Prize winners, and Foe (1986), the story of an Englishwoman who, stranded on a desert island, struggles to communicate with a black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths it is the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society where whites were often separated from black Africans by an abyss of linguistic and cultural incomprehension. "Is this not what you are saying?" I asked at our interview. The pen scratched...
Richard J. Light, Gale professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is the author of Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. FM’s Seth H. Robinson talked to Light about living life at college to the fullest and graduating without regrets (hint: think a capella...
...that's before she gets the bad news: her younger sister Madeleine, who has everything to live for, has leukemia. That's the setup in Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, a novel that's likely to be the first pleasant literary surprise of 2004. Robinson wisely chooses to tell Olivia's story through her letters and e-mail, allowing her to shift with unnerving speed from hilarious satire--in letters to Robin Williams and Danny DeVito begging them to look at scripts--to devastatingly painful accounts of Madeleine's decline. Robinson does both...
...convicted of fraud. Why do fugitives flock to this beautiful city? "Perhaps they think we're at the end of the world," ventures a spokesman for the mayor. "Little do they know, we are far more First World than Third. Our international links are strong." --By Simon Robinson and Peter Hawthorne