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Last week Britain's Queen fulfilled another age-old obligation to her people by spending Christmas at Sandringham, her grandfather's and her father's favorite house, surrounded by members of her family. It was the season when Britons are most conscious of home and family, words that loom large and rich with meaning in their lives. It was the season also when the British monarch traditionally speaks to his subjects as a parent on matters close to all their hearts. By radio from Sandringham last week, Elizabeth told her subjects in a warm, clear voice: "Many...
It’s not just the age-old rivalry or the good competition that makes the Harvard men’s baseball team so eager for its trip to New Haven this weekend. It’s the chance to redeem itself after a humbling loss and get back to its winning ways...
...fallen player.So when Kramer came up in the fifth inning, for the second time since the incident, the Columbia reliever buzzed two pitches by Kramer’s head (one over, one behind) and ball four almost hit him on the knee. The retaliatory brush-back fastballs, that age-old assertion of pride and indomitableness, simply occurred to Kramer as standard practice. “That’s just part of the game,” he said. “If someone did that to our team, we’d probably do the same thing. It?...
...Maya, the oenophilic waitress in Sideways points out, reflects the soil, the sun and the rain of the year its grapes were grown. Its ultimate flavor, though, will also reflect the burnishing influence of the years it lay in wait of a corkscrew. As more women discover that age-old truth about wine and waiting, it's a good bet that fewer will settle for the little White Lie of a cutesy label...
...Merritt—founder of the Magnetic Fields—wrote the scores for three operas. Then he compiled selections from them onto a single record, named it “Showtunes,” and released it as an album. No grand, sprawling ruminations on age-old concepts (as in “69 Love Songs”); no coy word games (as in 2004’s “i”) that alternately charm and annoy the critics. Still, this album has a lot to unpack. Director Chen Shi-Zheng, Merritt’s theatrical collaborator...