Word: englands
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SYED ANSAR KHAN Wimbledon, England...
ROBERT READMAN Bournemouth, England...
...Asteroids games, the Connors-McEnroe matches on TV, the Jean Michel Jarre LPs and screenings of Chariots of Fire. Teenagers canoodle to Three Times a Lady and weep over Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet those familiar details are lit up with a sense of magic that makes Middle England seem more wondrous than Middle-earth. "Birdsong's the thoughts of a wood. Beautiful, it was, but boys aren't allowed to say 'beautiful' 'cause it's the gayest word going...
...Opus will still not identify its members, and many prefer not to identify themselves. In England, in late 2004, the Labour government's Education Secretary, Ruth Kelly, went months before confirming she had received "spiritual support" from Opus. (Her exact status remains unclear.) Nor, as Allen shows in his book, will Opus formally own up to many of its institutions. Its U.S. schools tend to go by bland names like the Heights or Northridge Prep. For years, he reports, the 17-story U.S. headquarters in New York, finished in 2001, lacked an identifying street-level sign. Allen counts 15 universities...
...their final tune-up before the Ivy League Championships next weekend, the Crimson men’s golf team turned in its best performance of the short spring season. Harvard finished in a tie for 11th in Providence, R.I. at the New England Division I championships, behind the eventual winner of the tourney, Binghamton. The two-day total of 611 came on the strength of two consistent rounds of 305 and 306. “We now have the younger guys playing better,” senior Tom Hegge said. “Mike [Shore] played well both days, John...