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...Cricket arrived here in the 19th century, when the Parsi community in Mumbai picked up the game from English settlers. The game soon spread around the subcontinent, crossing religious and caste boundaries as it went. India played its first international game in 1932, and it was popularized with the advent of television and the introduction of one-day matches (in which each side is limited to facing only 300 balls during its turn at bat - as opposed to the traditional five-day test match in which each side bats twice, with no limit on the duration of an inning). After...
...Train Wreck: Anna Nicole Unauthorized.” Every few years, a new article comes out proclaiming that the book is an endangered species, being pushed out of prominence by the newer media of magazines, television or the Internet. But literature always seems to survive the advent of newer media, partially because it adapts to what readers want. In our fame-obsessed society, that often means books about celebrities. Though a tabloid can be leafed through inconspicuously at CVS while your boyfriend’s back is turned, a book requires the courage to face the cashier and acknowledge...
...demand for creative writing in 1971 when the “Option III” course of instruction was added to the concentration. Few resources were dedicated to the program, which was only offered to English concentrators and admitted fewer than 20 percent of applicants.Even after the advent of Option III, doubt about the merits of creative writing lingered. In 1979, Director of Expository Writing Richard Marius cancelled the only fiction offering, Expository Writing 13, even though it was the most popular section. He was concerned that fiction courses failed to teach students how to write expository prose. Although...
...Samaria. Arabs or no, God meant the Jews to have that land. Before 1948, some ultra-Orthodox Jews vehemently opposed the very idea of a Jewish state. It was to them a blasphemy. There could be no state of Israel until the arrival of the Messiah. But since the advent of Beginism, Jewish religion and nationalism have mixed in a new way. ''We have come back to our homeland, and we are not going to leave forever,'' vows Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the former chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces. To such Jews, the West Bank is not ''occupied...
...Neil L. Rudenstine, who, as one critic put it, “acted like a dean,” and whose capacity for deference made him seem a pushover to many (he wasn’t), was succeeded by the tough talking and tough acting Lawrence H. Summers, whose advent was described as “a new sheriff in town.” If the Corporation behaves true to form, it will be looking for the not Larry Summers...