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Before moving to Duke, Brodhead spent 11 years as Yale’s college dean. Prior to that, he was an English professor at Yale, according to Duke’s Web site...
...Audrey Hepburn Treasures" and find a photo of a three-month-old child. On the back Ella has inscribed: "This is Audrey but in reality she is 1000 times sweeter and more lovely." Yet Ella, who said she "grew up wanting to be more than anything else English, slim and an actress," seemed miffed that Audrey got all that, and more. She rarely showed pleasure in her daughter's success. She came backstage after Audrey's Broadway triumph in "Gigi" in 1951 and said, "You've done very well, my dear, considering that you have no talent." (A few years...
...doing the sports-world equivalent of writing nasty graffiti on the girls'-bathroom wall. After Beckham's $250 million job with the U.S.'s Major League Soccer was announced, Real Madrid barred Beckham from playing in any more games. And team president Ramón Calderón said the English midfielder is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy because no other team wants him. "David Beckham is going to be some sort of film actor living in Hollywood," Calderón scoffed. Unfazed, Beck's wife Victoria scoped out Hollywood homes, and American sports fans contemplated something novel: buying tickets for a soccer...
...terms, on one side are the supremely rational (and unashamedly artificial) boulevards of André Le Nôtre's design for the Gardens of Versailles, with their long Baroque vistas and knife-edge perpendiculars. On the other side are the parks and estates of Lancelot (Capability) Brown, the 18th century English landscape designer whose gently (and shrewdly) idealized version of nature, with its faux-pastoral scenic effects, all those rolling mounds and little groves, was an important inspiration for Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park in New York City...
...Engrish.com: The lengths to which Japanese people will go to pretend they know English is extraordinary...