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...junior at Harvard, Gilbert was musical director for the Lowell House Opera. Established in 1938 by the Lowell House Music Society, it’s the oldest continually running opera in New England...
...Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” debuted in England in June 1997 and generated immediate buzz. According to a 1997 review of the novel in British newspaper The Guardian, author J.K. Rowling sold her manuscript to her UK publisher Bloomsbury for ?100,000, and less than a month later, she had attracted movie offers from two Hollywood studios...
Those “drinking rules” I had to explain at that first meeting? None to speak of, considering everyone’s of age. Add to the fact that they’re mostly from abroad—England, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and Greece, just to name a few in my entryway—and it’s clear that their alcohol consumption is much more akin to “civilized social norm” than the “get-trashed-and-throw-up” mentality that seems to rule in American...
...must be hoping the British economy remains just as reliable. And, right now, there's cause for concern. Rising gas prices kept inflation at 2.4% in June, above the government target of 2% and the E.U. average of 2.1%. Desperate to keep a lid on prices, the Bank of England pushed up interest rates earlier this month to 5.75%, a six-year-high and the fifth rise in less than a year. Economists expect the Bank to further nudge up rates to 6% in the coming months...
...Chancellor, of course, has few policy levers through which to intervene - it's up to the Bank of England to decide when inflation has been tamed by changes to the cost of borrowing; certain taxation levels for the next couple of years were set last March, and growth in government spending until 2011 has already been capped. The good news for Darling: Rising interest rates seem to be cooling Britain's housing market, where low-cost credit and a limited supply of homes have sent house prices skyward in recent years. The value of the average home reached...