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...learn the details of the fighting in Chapter 7 of my book The Triumph of British America: 1776-1843, which sells for a modest ?5.6 in the Coop. It is enough to say here that British forces, led by Charles Earl Cornwallis, for whom this university is named, soundly defeated the much larger forces of the French and rebellious Americans and took prisoner their commander, George Washington. If you're interested in such peculiarities, you can see his brandy-stained teeth, which were fashioned out of hippopotamus tusk, in Prince Charles Hall, right next to Pocahontas' feathered headdress...
...Only the Earl of Liverpool, who was then the British Prime Minister, can be blamed, however, for the failure to purchase Florida and the lands along the Gulf Coast, which the Spanish, hard up as always, put on the market for ?1 million in 1819. If Lord Liverpool had not been so foolishly parsimonious, that sun-favored peninsula would now be a law-abiding and God-fearing American province instead of the petty dictatorship it is, whose only exports are drugs, disease and depravity...
Plummer could overpower a strong Moor, but James Earl Jones is the most oddly recessive Othello imaginable, laurence Olivier once complained while rehearsing his own exhasting Othello that the part was all climaxes. Jones sadly pretends they don't exist, as if rising to one would obligate him to go for them all. He enters with great dignity, immense and unthreatening grandfatherly, a solemn Buddha. His words seem to wigh as much as he does--they come out undifferentiated, as if he'd learned them phonetically (tough this is preferable to his occasional bursts of temper, when he speaks swiftly...
...Patriots picked off four Ken Stabler passes and stymied the Oiler rushing game by holding Earl Campbell to just 86 yards on 27 carries. A 17-point third-quarter outburst--featuring two Steve Grogan touchdown passess--put the game away for the Pats...
...heart attack; in Charlotte, N.C. A Jewish immigrant's son who was reared on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Carl Sandburg among its readers. A typical satirical proposal: the Golden Vertical Negro Plan to install stand-up desks in public schools because Southerners seemed averse only to sitting, not standing, next to blacks...