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...enjoyed it so far. Cambridge seems like the kind of place where you can walk around, the public transport is great, and it’s nice to be close to Boston. And I didn’t find it as cold as I was fearing. Growing up in Britain, Grieveson explains that he, like many Europeans, was continually influenced by American preeminence in cinema, rather than films from his own country. LG: British cinema, at the beginning at least, was quite vibrant and important. But certainly from about the First World War onward, it’s been dominated...
...order of malta, an ancient-Rome-based humanitarian entity whose senior members are knights and other nobles, aids victims of war and disaster, issues its own passports and holds diplomatic ties with 100 nations. In 1988 Andrew Bertie, a descendant of Britain's royal Stuarts, became its first British grand master since 1258. The journalist turned teacher upped membership, expanded relief efforts and doubled diplomatic missions...
...fifteenth century, according to Watson. During this time, people first began to address each other as “Valentine” and send each other little gifts as tokens of their affection. Since that era, the tradition of mailing cards to loved ones gradually spread to Britain and eventually to the United States in the 1840s. By the late 1850s, Americans were buying 3 million pre-made Valentine cards a year. According to the Society of American Florists, 214 million roses are expected to be sold today, But, according to Jane M. Fredell ’09, co-president...
...Jonathan Ross, the BBC's high-priced answer to Jay Leno, was tossing out all night. His running gag - that the writers' strike had left him with nothing but a bunch of lame puns - is a shtick Leno used months ago. And it doesn't make sense anyway, since Britain's writers aren't on strike. The evening's evidence does suggest, though, that in sympathy with their U.S. counterparts they just gave up trying. Schooling the Oscars
...Both communities are among the 20 nationwide awarded $50,000 grants by Britain's Home Office to test the cameras, following an initial trial run last year in the Northern city of Middlesborough. The talking cameras are the latest advance in a country that's embraced video surveillance with an enthusiasm that would make Orwell shudder. Liberty, a civil liberties group, conservatively estimates there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras currently in operation in the UK, one for every 14 residents. Anyone living or working in London will likely be captured on camera 300 times a day, the group claims. Indeed...