Word: englands
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...weekend of the summer solstice, my wife and I went to a wedding in New England. The weather was perfect - mid-70s, sunny, with an exquisite whisper of breeze. We stayed at a classic little inn... classic except for the air-conditioning blasting through the lobby. I asked the innkeeper why he felt the need to refrigerate when the weather outside was so amenable. "I wish we didn't. It's expensive. I'd love to keep the temperature about 75," he told me, "but the guests demand...
...clear skies clear across the Atlantic Ocean, a clearly stronger Crimson team took to the field June 7 for the first-ever international Harvard-Yale polo match, breaking out to a 6-0 lead and holding on for a 6-5 victory at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor, England in front of an estimated 10,000 spectators...
...It’s really an unbelievable experience to play in front of 5,000 plus fans and to have them cheering as you go down the sidelines is really incredible,” Levin said. “Getting a chance to come to England was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and we showed that we were better than Yale this year...
Mark Twain once said about rural England that it was "too absolutely beautiful to be left out of doors." He could have said the same about the Berkshires, where the Clark is set. More than any of his other American projects, the Stone Hill Center, which he worked on with the landscape designers Reed Hilderbrand Associates, has allowed Ando to set up the elegant interactions with nature he's known for in Japan. And in his way, he does indeed bring it indoors. In one gallery, a view of woodlands is abstracted--compressed and subdivided--by way of a window...
...same can be said of John McCain, though his trademark medium is comparatively modest. Instead of the massive event, McCain is most at home in the town-hall meeting, a modern twist on the old New England civic institution, in which neighbors gather to participate in pure democracy. For McCain, the town hall is more than just a chance for him to spread his message of staying the course in Iraq and cutting taxes and spending. The gathering is itself the message he wants to deliver...