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...highest level of this unknown but beautiful game.Blake faced off against the No. 1 tennis player in the world, the incomparable Roger Federer, at the most significant stage in American tennis with his first Grand Slam semifinal berth at stake.Maybe it was too much to expect for this epic match to crack the Nielsen Top 20, to beat out such inspiring entertainment as “Bones” or “Dancing with the Stars.” But for a tennis fan, a fan of James Blake, or just a fan of Harvard in general, this...
...Hero of Irish Myth and Saga” and C-51, “Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde.” A common theme seems to be the study of how a specific kind of art worked in a specific historical epic, how it was influenced by current events and how it influenced them in turn. The keyword is “specific;” most classes cover one type of art in a tightly defined period of time. A science major might grumble that he wasted an entire course learning...
...summer double issue, which revisited the epic journey to the East undertaken by the Venetian explorer Marco Polo in the 13th century, turned out to be a voyage of discovery for our readers...
...giggling softly. "She was scared after what they did to Matigari." When she finally returned, she led him into a novel that would take the next eight years to finish. Originally published in Ngugi's mother tongue, Gikuyu, and now translated into English, Wizard of the Crow is an epic satire on the state of modern-day Africa. Set in the fictional "free republic" of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow pits a bloated, inept dictator - whose solution to the country's crippling poverty is to build a tower that reaches heaven - against a wizard who cures his clients with emotional...
...only thanks to her unknown and ineffective trio of opponents that Harris, 49, is nonetheless expected by many analysts and recent polls to win the primary - before undoubtedly losing the November election to incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. "It really has been a disastrous campaign of epic proportions," says Aubrey Jewett, political science professor of University of Central Florida in Orlando. "I don't think you've ever seen anyone fall from grace so fast in their own party...