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Glaeser’s analysis of economic growth in Glasgow and Edinburgh has made him somewhat of a celebrity in Scotland—four centuries after his mother’s family emigrated from the Highlands...
...observes Sasha. Does she think the portrait resembles the work of Michelangelo? She looks blank and shrugs. "I dunno," she replies, and her eyes drift back to the screen. Days after David was launched upon an eager public, a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh by Stuart Pearson Wright was also unveiled, showing Prince Philip bare-chested and old, with a bluebottle fly on one shoulder. He drew no blushing teens, no comparisons to courtiers or Michelangelo. The king is dead, we say. Long live the king...
...money. As in all the other books, McCall Smith draws heavily on his happy childhood years in what was then Rhodesia. He praises the "quiet decency" of Botswana, which lies just southwest of Zimbabwe and which McCall Smith, whose day job is teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh, got to know while helping set up the law school in Gaborone in the early '80s. "In Botswana, even in the small transactions of life, people pay attention to each other," he says...
...Smith, on extended leave from his job, is prolific. He has written more than 30 children's books (he has two daughters--one at college, the other younger) and a monograph on the criminal law of Botswana. A new series of books about Isabel Dalhousie, a female gumshoe in Edinburgh, is well under way; the first installment, The Sunday Philosophy Club, is due out in September. A satirical novel about academics, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, is expected in early 2005. And the sixth Ramotswe book is already finished. How does he manage it all? "I'm very lucky," he says...
...perhaps most famous for his researches in problems of multiple personality. His theories of the subconscious were well known among psychologists long before Freud's had become a familiar name in this country. Dr. Prince has been guest professor in many American universities. In Oxford and Cambridge, Edinburgh and London he has lectured on phases of abnormal psychology...