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...advanced study of mathematics, focusing on theoretical physics and applied math but also plans to continue singing. He said that he takes special pride in the fact that Isaac Newton lived in the same College when at Cambridge. “I also want to row and play cricket and have tea and sherry,” Blazek said.Members of the selection committee knocked on the winners’ dorm-room doors last Saturday evening to announce the good news—all except for Blazek. In his case, they interrupted his Glee Club rehearsal.“They...
This may seem too inside-cricket for a U.S. audience. And it's true that Cock and Bull is so postpostmodern, it's very nearly postmovie. But it's no less diverting for all that. It would be a shame if the great novel no one has read becomes the terrific film nobody bothers...
...know Arthur Conan Doyle: pillar of society, cricket jock and wildly successful author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, whose life of late-Victorian virtue goes all squiffy when he accidentally acquires a passion for a woman not his wife. Doyle also acquires a late-life project in the form of George Edalji, a half-Indian lawyer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Barnes, a top-shelf British novelist whose work doesn't always cross the Atlantic well, has created a slow-burning, enlargingly human tale of reasonable men whose expectations about the world are first deeply disappointed and then strangely...
...PACKER, 68, brash Australian tycoon whose $5 billion fortune made him the country's richest person; in Sydney. Packer took over his family's media empire, Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd., in 1974, and expanded it into areas including gambling, real estate and gemstone exploration. His TV-friendly World Series Cricket, with shorter matches, colorful uniforms and night games, helped revitalize public enthusiasm for the sport. Packer suffered a heart attack in 1990 and was dead for eight minutes before being revived, later prompting him to tell a talk-show host, "The good news is there's no devil...
...OLIVE BAR AND KITCHEN In the Bollywood neighborhood of Bandra, Olive, tel: (91-22) 2600 8248, is a hangout for film and cricket stars. Chef Rodney Cabran turns out simple but elegant Mediterranean standards (including pizza with the thinnest crust for thousands of miles), while a low-lit terrace offers an almost Balearic respite from the hustle of Bombay...