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...rate, the kind who write for newspapers and pontificate on current affairs - interpret the award somewhat differently. News of the distinction has garnered headlines ranging from the quizzical ("Does Tony Blair Deserve a Medal?") to the declarative ("Blair's Medal of Dishonor"). "It is for services rendered," Clare Short, Britian's former Secretary of State for Development, told the Times of London. This is not meant as a compliment. Short criticized U.S. aid efforts in Afghanistan and resigned from Blair's Cabinet three months after the invasion of Iraq, which she had only reluctantly backed...
...tale of The Prince's Waitress Wife, by Sarah Morgan (out Feb. 1, just in time for the start of the Six Nations European season), the first of eight rugby-themed romances from Mills & Boon, the iconic publishers of romance novels like Virgin Mistress, Scandalous Love-Child. According to Clare Somerville, director of sales and marketing, the rough-and-tumble world of rugby fits snugly into the publisher's literary field of play. "[The books] have all the elements of a quintessential Mills & Boon romance: jet-set locations, hunky alpha-male heroes and hot sex, but in a rugby context...
...Scores were higher yesterday, and a second round 311 allowed Harvard to overtake the Tigers and win the invitational by two strokes.“We actually had a solid round yesterday, but we can have no influence on what other teams do,” junior Clare Sheldon (77-78-155) said. “So every round we just go and try to do our best. And it was enough Sunday.”Sheldon and Harvey tied for 12th with two very sound rounds each.While the weather was beautiful, the course was enough to provide a tough...
When The Women by Clare Boothe Luce opened on Broadway in 1936, Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times critic, snarled that it contained "some of the most odious harpies ever collected in one play." It nevertheless became a huge hit, despite the fact that there has never been any reason to question his judgment - not when the 1939 movie version came along, and certainly not now as we cringingly confront writer-director Diane English's completely miscalculated remake...
...Women Written and directed by Diane English; rated PG-13; out now There's not even one male in this update of a Clare Boothe Luce play. But the men aren't missed, what with all the dames who surround Meg Ryan's Mary Haines, the doing-it-all mom whose spouse is doing someone else. More authentic than the femme films of summer, if a little less...