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...retain, BBC3 has scored several successes, including an exuberantly tasteless comedy show called Little Britain. Featuring such popular characters as an incoherent delinquent called Vicky Pollard and a pugnacious, latex-clad homosexual named Dafydd Thomas, who deludedly believes he is "the only gay in the village," Little Britain drew a mass following and won a primetime slot on BBC1. But although BBC3's share of viewers aged 16-24 has risen by 47% since October 2006, its audience still amounts to only a 3.7% share of viewers in that age group. BBC broadcaster John Humphrys, who vies with Paxman...
...list as miserly and pretentious as the spirit that drew it up. Indeed, working through A Writer's People is rather like listening to the postprandial monologue of a cantankerous old guest at a literary dinner. One is at first amused by all the iconoclasm: After all, why should the reputations of Powell or Chaudhuri matter these days? One then begins to demur: Is Philip Larkin really a "minor" poet? Is the Caribbean really a place of "spiritual emptiness"? Finally one balks completely - at Naipaul's tiresome insistence on referring to the black population of Trinidad as "Negroes," for example...
...ranking high school ballers to Michigan—his 2004 class contained three four-star prospects. But it’s a new phenomenon in Cambridge. In the past six classes, only two players had stars—former captain Jim Goffredo ’07 and junior guard Drew Housman were each two-star prospects.Amaker’s pitch to high schoolers is changing that. In addition to the four committed players, two-star forward prospects Dario Hunt of Goldsboro, NC and Andrew Van Nest of Northfield, MA are considering suiting up for the Crimson next year...
Students who stepped out of the drizzle yesterday and into the tent on the Science Center lawn yesterday were welcomed with music, Hebrew name bracelets, and free falafel. iFest, the annual celebration of Israeli culture, drew about 500 people, said event organizer Dana A. Stern ’09. “It’s a chance to bring the beauty of Israel’s society and Israel’s history to the greater student body,” said Stern, president of Harvard Students for Israel (HSI). Tables were set up around the edge...
Freshman Bret Voith scored a vital goal to bring the lead down to one, and with under a minute remaining, the Crimson drew another clutch foul...