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High Tea in Mosul follows two Englishwomen, longtime friends Pauline (a pseudonym) and Margaret (her real name), who married Iraqi students they met in England and moved in the 1970s to the ancient northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In 2003 they met the author - an Australian then covering the war for the Irish Times - shortly after coalition troops freed the city. O'Donnell's book is a brief, devastating account of how these women's lives change over three increasingly grim decades in their adopted country...
Cosslett, 52, is a general among road warriors, CEO of InterContinental Hotel Group, the outfit based in Windsor, England, that is the parent for the 148 InterContinental hostelries worldwide, as well as Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites, Crowne Plaza and Indigo brands. And under his command IHG is invading new territory. Last year the company planted 26 more InterContinental flags, up 40%, including in Los Angeles, Red Square, Tokyo and Chengdu; Holiday Inn added 700 franchises...
...first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall. It's also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further), there is no more fitting home than the Yorkshire Sculpture Park...
...help keep the conversation flowing, the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies in England has developed the first-ever video dictionary for mobile phones. Available at www.mobilesign.org, it features over 5,000 words in British Sign Language demonstrated by a Centre staff member. The service is easy to use - you type in the word you want and then click on the video file - and it costs a mere 2? per sign. Once you have downloaded the video to your phone, it's yours to keep...
...create more awareness and support for veterans’ issues,” said Ann L. Gallo, a movement control officer in Iraq and current co-president of the Business School Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA). “We held a fundraiser to help New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans a few weeks...