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...plan: to make wine in a country where alcohol was taboo and the closest thing to sophisticated intoxication was hooch. Thirteen years later, Samant runs Sula, one of India's largest vintners, producing more than a million bottles a year. And he lives large, employing a chauffeur and a butler, vacationing in Europe and California, and partying every night in Bombay...
...Through some clear, clever graphics, all this is spelled out in Wordplay. What you won't learn in the movie is that the puzzle's constructor, Jeremiah (Jerry) Farrell - a Butler University professor of, what else, mathematics - had submitted a simpler version to the Times for election Day 1980, with CARTER and REAGAN as the interchangeable words. Maleska turned it down, supposedly asking, "What if John Anderson wins?" (I still shake my head in wonder at Farrell's brilliance, and Maleska's myopia.) Sixteen years later, Farrell revived and revised the idea. Though Shortz typically revises about half...
...Brita Butler-Wall, executive director of Seattle-based Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, has been lobbying the school board for more than a year to get rid of the Coca-Cola contract. Yet, as a parent of an eighth-grader in a local public school, she says, "I don't want to see our district spending its money hiring more lawyers to fight a legal battle." Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, says, "If you want to influence the school board, you run for a seat on the board. Threatening...
Eliot: Jay A.H. Butler, Katharine C. Hinkle, Meghan V. Joyce, James G. Levine, Daniel W. Shoag, Zachary B. Singer, Ying Sun, Dina S. Wang, Shengping...
...horrified ‘No,’” Vendler wrote. Louise Glück, former poet laureate of the United States, told an audience at Harvard Hillel last night that she was encouraged as a young poet reading the unpolished works of poets like William Butler Yeats. Vendler’s assertions are not only being challenged by fellow poetry critics but by at least one member of her own English and American Literature Department. “I don’t believe that [an] author’s intentions are all that matters or that...