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Security was tight around the courtroom as the trial drew to a close. Prime Minister Herbert Blaize reinforced local police with small contingents from neighboring countries. In the end, 14 of the defendants were convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. Among them: former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, his wife Phyllis and General Hudson Austin...
...registered somewhere in the brain were constantly being delivered to them. Instead, our working memory and spotlight of attention receive executive summaries of the events and states that are most relevant to updating an understanding of the world and figuring out what to do next. The cognitive psychologist Bernard Baars likens consciousness to a global blackboard on which brain processes post their results and monitor the results of the others...
...Possibly: his name is Bernard Tomic and he'll be contesting the junior version of the Australian Open. From the Gold Coast, Tomic raised insiders' eyebrows last year by winning four ITF under-18 events as a 13-year-old. Apart from an impressive baseline game, Tomic, now 14, plays with the kind of palpable intensity that these days is a prerequisite for getting anywhere in tennis, and he looks destined to be a tall boy, perhaps 190-cm by the time he stops growing. The leap from juniors to the Tour is huge and the tennis canyon is full...
...first couple minutes of the Adams House Drama Society’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House,” genteel Brits lounged lazily over furniture, occasionally yawning to languid background parlor music. I hoped that the action would pick up in the next three hours...
...cors.) "Our mother didn't have a lot of money, but the word we heard most often was regardez. Look at all the beautiful buildings in Paris. Look at the paintings, the furniture," Marie-France will tell you if you push the garden gate to the home she and Bernard purchased with the proceeds from the sale of the company, appropriately two doors down from a school. "You were told to train your eye, and always there was a disassociation of beauty and taste from the idea of money. That is the secret...