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...Nope! JL: Yeah. It’s long. It seems hackneyed, because it’s the origin of these further conventions, so we couldn’t actually keep complete fidelity to the sensibility.6.FM: It seems that you’re hoping it will be kind of a gateway drug into these 18th-century novels. What would you hope that a reader would gain just by reading it? JL: I do wish that it brought people to read more 18th-century fiction and historical materials. The book is supposed to sort of make the reader the historian...
...task of controlling both illegal migration into Assam - as well as militant groups such as ULFA that operate in the border areas - falls to the 160,000 troops of India's Border Security Force (BSF), half of whom guard the frontier with Bangladesh. At the biggest gateway between Assam and Bangladesh, a junction of the Brahmaputra River near a market town called Dhubri, the BSF's Water Wing patrols 24 hours a day by speedboat. Ferries carry laborers from the remote villages downstream to jobs in Dhubri, Guwahati or Siliguri, and each one is stopped by BSF guards, who check...
Muckey’s bid of $140 a square foot earlier this month beat out those of three other prospective owners, including Unofficial Tours LLC, which was founded by Harvard students; Canada-based Gateway Newsstands; and Kallol Barua, the current general manager of the building. Unofficial Tours had the runner-up offer at $136 per square foot...
...years old, St. Pancras railway station is London's new, hip gateway to Europe. Thanks to a recent billion-dollar refit, passengers awaiting high-speed trains to Paris or Brussels can sip champagne at the continent's longest bar, or eat oysters and caviar at a fine-dining restaurant. With the value of the pound plummeting, though, Britons heading to Europe are not exactly in a celebratory mood. Trips to Paris used to involve "a stroll around the shops to see if I could pick up some nice Parisian fashion," grumbles Jemima, a 35-year-old sales professional...
...chose to ignore this incident or to brush off Meyer’s response as overreacting, but it should have taken the downloaders seriously. For this episode contains a clear imperative: If books are to remain profitable, publishers must imitate the music industry and see artistic content as a gateway to more profitable ventures...