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...tunneled into a Lloyd's Bank on the corner of Baker St and the the Marylebone Road in London, helped themselves to the contents of its safe deposit vault and skeddadled with cash and jewelry worth something like 3 million pounds. The robbery preoccupied the front pages of the English press for four days, then abruptly disappeared from the newspapers when the government clamped a "D Notice" on the story - implying that evidence of state secrets was also part of the swag...
...direct exposure, just how horrible it was. It had red and black flowers, vines, and polka dots. It had several buttons on it that served no functional purpose. It even had a matching sunhat with cherries, which just made no sense; Six is not a 65-year-old English dame/gardener, but Blossom’s highly annoying friend who was inexplicably named after a number. Watching this fine television show reminded me that I, too, had a floral dress in the ’90s—in fact, I had several. One particularly excellent dress had a portrait collar...
...achieve intellectual freedom by virtue of the poems. We continue on in our incomplete lives armed with the completing questions. Even at 85, Hartwig still discovers new mysteries of life to explore. “Unfinished,” an anthology of her selected poems, is the first English publication from Hartwig, a Polish poet best known for her translations of English and French poetry into her native language. Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter, the book is a window into Hartwig’s interpretation of the real essence of life. Unconstrained by the expectations of social constructs...
...Another campus that's reforming is Tokyo's Waseda University. Four years ago, Waseda launched a new School of International Liberal Studies as a testing ground for "enforced artificial internationalism," as Paul Snowden, the school's dean, describes it. All classes are taught in English. The school as a matter of policy recruits one-third of its students from overseas, from countries as far away as Iceland and Uganda. The strategy seems to be working. Since it opened, the program has seen enrollment grow at an annual average rate of 15%. "This school is dragging Waseda kicking and screaming into...
...Japan is a country that clings to tradition and carefully guards its culture. Teaching in English and courting outsiders remains anathema to many faculty members and administrators. "The structure of universities and research institutes is so intransigent that it's hard to implement solutions," says Stronach, the Yokohama City University president. "These reforms are crucial right now, and yet there's an awful lot of dithering going...