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...boarding school in the English countryside. The crack of the cricket bat, the furtive cigarettes, the obligatory corporal punishment--like buried memories from our Colonial past, they arouse atavistic, Anglophilic urges. Some people get their Brit fix from Harry Potter. They will get that, and much more, from William Boyd's brilliant, beautiful and exceptionally British Any Human Heart (Knopf; 498 pages...
...secretary-treasurer: R. St. B. Boyd, of Dedham, Mass.; S. P. Clark, of Chestnut Hill, Pa.; L. Saltonstall, of Chestnut Hill, Mass.; R. L. West, of Millis...
...this novel." (Bollinger is also a practical man, so audiences will be bussed to and from the Apollo.) The play will return to Britain in April for a national tour. For the RSC, it represents a much-needed opportunity to attract new audiences. The new artistic director, Michael Boyd, inherited a company €3.5 million in the red and with an unimpressive ratio of hit productions. Boyd sees Midnight's Children as exactly the sort of show to put the RSC back on track. It may not be Shakespeare, he says, but "Rushdie is in the highly theatrical Shakespearean tradition...
...executive editor, Howell Raines, who grew up in Alabama during the era of resistance to desegregation. Raines' well-known liberal sympathies prompted great suspicion that two articles by sports columnists were spiked because they took issue with the paper's stance. The paper's No. 2 editor, Gerald Boyd, tried to quell the uproar by explaining in a staff memo that one piece amounted to "unseemly and self-absorbed" quarreling with the editorial page and that the other's "logic did not meet our standards." But that failed to dampen the newsroom outrage, and the top editors decided to print...
...Flinder Boyd was Dartmouth’s Mr. Everything one season ago, enjoying the best all-around year and just missing out on All-Ivy recognition as the Big Green’s point guard and top scorer. In his stead, Callahan will serve as Faucher’s floor general. He’ll have huge shoes to fill ... McLaren emerged last season as one of the league’s top sharp-shooters in his rookie season. Expect more of the same in 2002-03 ... Harris is the Big Green’s leading returning scorer. He averaged...