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Middlemarch is a moral tale, but one told with frequently mordant wit. At the novel's center are two altruists whose yearning to serve others is frustrated in large measure by ill-advised marriages. Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) is ward of her eccentric uncle Arthur (Robert Hardy), who is known as "the worst landlord in the county" for the shabby way he treats his tenants. Dorothea's desire to improve the lot of others leads her to wed the Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), a scholar and cleric more than twice her young age. She is enraptured by his dream...
...result, only two men's alpine skiers, co-captain Eric Horsley and freshman Dan Williams, and four women's skiers, freshman Carolyn McGill, freshman Katja Hrones, freshman Aubrey Spath and junior Katie Hatch, skied in the Weekend competition...
...about 7% might reach no more than 7.5% by the end of the year. But short-term rates, which affect consumer loans and business borrowings, could rise more sharply as the Federal Reserve tightens the money supply to keep the recovery from overheating. David Jones, chief economist for Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., predicted that the prime rate, which banks charge large corporate customers, could climb a percentage point, to 7%. He added that a surge in short-term rates could jolt the stock and bond markets and send small investors scurrying back to dull but safer certificates of deposit...
...this situation through the eyes of Hannah, "an ideal correspondent, the perfect reporter," who keeps a diary during her stay in England. Hannah tells the story of a `desponder' (a term she ascribed to those who would go to America to make quick money and a quick name), Dr. Aubrey, who sets up a practice in Boston and charges three times the rate of "physicians trained in unsavoury local colleges like Harvard...
...vital moment in history of avant-garde painting in New York by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Frank Stella. Through Nov. 11: "Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest." Featuring works by artists such as William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley and John Constable. Through Jan. 6: "The Art of Time: Clocks, Watches, and Other Timepieces from Harvard Collections." Includes many historically significant pieces seldom seen in public. The inner works of each timepiece will be displayed outside the case to help viewers appreciate the clockmakers' art. Through...