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...building the NBA into a global brand since before the Dream Team made its debut at the Barcelona Olympics a decade ago. "These kids have grown up watching Michael Jordan," Stern says of the NBA's new foreign stars. "Basketball is a universal language, and it's about to bloom on a global basis." Stern is counting on that, especially at a time when the NBA's popularity, at least judging by TV ratings and attendance figures, seems to have reached its peak...
...HAROLD BLOOM. This guru of literary theory and Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University will make an appearance in Cambridge to speak about his new book Hamlet: Poem Unlimited. Having already produced a New York Times bestseller about Shakespeare, Bloom’s new book promises a closer analysis of the character we all love and know (for at least 25 lines or so) by heart. Thursday, March 20 at 6 p.m. Tickets available free of charge at the Harvard Book Store information desk. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway...
...imagined a Middle East where “the smiles will be easier, the shoulders will have been dropped...and Jerusalem will begin to bloom again...
Will Democracy Bloom...
When the English language was planted in South Asia, who knew it would bloom with such fecundity? From the riots of Salman Rushdie to the florid sagas of Vikram Seth and the humid prose of Arundhati Roy, much of the best subcontinental writing has embraced a hothouse style, the kind of Victorian grandness long forgotten by the English themselves. When the empire wrote back, it was never at a loss for words...