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...young officer escort as he leads her through the traditional paces of the Gay Gordons. They are surrounded by a swirl of tuxedoes, taffeta and tiaras--a time warp on the water aboard the grandest dame of them all, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth...
...somewhat more refined talents. Last week ROSEMARY HARRIS and her daughter JENNIFER EHLE were nominated for Tony awards in the category of Best Actress. Harris, a stage veteran who has won a Tony, was recognized for her role in Waiting in the Wings; Ehle, best known for playing Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, got the nod for her Broadway debut in The Real Thing. This summer the two can be seen in the film Sunshine, also starring Ralph Fiennes, in which Harris plays the older version of Ehle's character, the most inspired casting...
Anyone who has ever traveled to Britain knows the re-assuring jangle of a 1[pound] coin. It's weighty stuff, nearly twice the heft of an American quarter, and six times as valuable. It's got a gilt-colored exterior and a serene-looking Queen Elizabeth II on the face. It's a thick coin, about three stacked quarters high, and the British Royal Mint has dressed up the edge with fancy-looking Latin inscriptions ("Spend me wisely," they seem to say). The pound feels like real money. It feels great...
...large courses with lots of different TFs you have to address the question of common grading standards, so that all students are getting equivalent grades for equivalent work," says Elizabeth B. Clark, the head teaching fellow for Historical Studies A: "Women Feminism and History...
Although courts do not keep data on the number of men, women and couples who file for bankruptcy, academic studies have developed estimates. Research conducted by Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor, and Teresa Sullivan, dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas, shows the pattern. From 1981 to 1999, bankruptcy filings by women shot up 838%--four times as fast as for all others--jumping from 53,000 to 497,000. In contrast, filings by husbands and wives rose just 138%, from 178,000 to 423,000. Once a small minority in bankruptcy court, women now comprise...