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Harvard seniors Lawrence G. Benn, Amy N. Finkelstein, Theodore W. Hong, Jesse L. Tseng and Deborah J. Wexler all were granted the scholarship, which will enable them to study a subject of their choice...
...interview was not as stressful as everyone had told me it would be," said Benn, who is an English concentrator and plans to study the subject further at Oxford. "I had read the Economist and the Spectator to prepare for the interview but they didn't ask me anything about them. It was just 30 minutes of pointed questions aimed at my specific topic...
...unwritten "document" that is the foundation of his country's culture? The official church is woven deeply into it, and his statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will use his position as a member of the Privy Council to veto the prince's accession. Many politicians...
...former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to her erstwhile position. He hardly even concerns himself with the twenty years which have passed since she last was in residence at Darlington Hall, and in a series of rather Freudian slips, seems to continually forget that she is married, and now "Mrs. Benn". He journeys towards her psychologically as well as physically throughout the film, recalling his interactions with her when she was indeed housekeeper at Darlington Hall, as he gradually approaches her current home in the West Country. The relationship of Mr. Stevens and Miss Kenton/Mrs. Benn is not the sole focus...
...another. Part of the reason is that despite the mounting death toll, the problem of Northern Ireland is not considered sufficiently important to hold the attention of governments in London and Dublin, where the matter of Ulster and Irish partition must ultimately be decided. "The British," says Tony Benn, a Labour M.P. in London, "are not remotely interested in the Irish. When there is no trouble in Ireland, nobody discusses it. When there is trouble, it's too dangerous to discuss...