Word: careys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...June of 1998, Lee C. Bollinger sat in Harvard's Tercentenary Theatre and watched his daughter, Carey J. Bollinger '98, receive her diploma...
Australian Peter Carey, 57, has built a distinguished career out of offbeat, risk-taking novels. His Oscar and Lucinda (1988), which won Britain's Booker Prize, portrayed two improbable 19th century Aussie dreamers obsessed with the notion of hauling a glass church across the outback. In Jack Maggs (1998), Carey produced an engaging variation on Dickens' Great Expectations. And he is up to new tricks in True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf; 352 pages; $25), which purports to be a first-person narrative written by Ned Kelly, the outlaw who terrorized and enchanted Australians during the 1870s...
...actual Ned Kelly, who was hanged for murder in 1880, left behind some papers, and Carey has seamlessly grafted his fictional additions onto the existing historical records. But the power and charm of True History arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly, the son of Irish parents (his father a transported criminal), barely educated by a British schoolmaster who thought that "all micks was a notch beneath the cattle." Like most criminals, Ned believes he is innocent, that whatever wrongs he committed were acts of self-defense against an unjust society...
...advocating democracy. He and his wife Feng Ai moved to Cambridge last year to take positions as visiting scholars at Harvard University. RETIRED. YVES SAINT LAURENT, 65, famed designer for 40 years and a pioneer of both the pantsuit and the female tuxedo; in Paris (see tribute). RETIRED. GEORGE CAREY, 66, from the position of Archbishop of Canterbury; in Canterbury, England. During 11 turbulent years helming the world's 70 million Anglicans, Carey dealt with such divisive issues as female priests and the church's bad financial investments. Prime Minister Tony Blair will appoint the 104th Archbishop by October. DIVORCED...
...fortunate few who will be attending the inaugural gala will be entertained by celebrities like Drew Carey, Marie Osmond, Rick Schroeder and Meat Loaf, who will act as celebrity emcees at some of the eight official balls. Visiting students will have to scramble for tickets, since Republican dignitaries and contributors will get top priority--tickets sold for $125, though scalping will drive prices much higher...