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Undergraduate summers are the time for serious reading. I would urge students to read as much as they can of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, still the greatest work of historical writing in English. The combination of erudition and irony is exquisite. It...
Amid rumors and pressure from the Japanese media, Owada left Japan in 1988 for a two-year, Foreign Minsitry-sponsored study at Oxford. But in 1993, the Imperial Household announced the engagement, and that June Owada became Crown Princess of Japan, only the second commoner to ever marry into the...
Britain's jingoistic press always likes to revisit the Battle of Waterloo, but such fulminations obscure the deeper significance of the Green Paper and the Strategic Defence Review it foreshadows. The SDR, expected this autumn, will be the first such exercise in 12 turbulent years. Any decisions Britain takes on...
Beware of your tab, however: with an encyclopedic bar menu comprised of about 40 small production beers and more than 60 American wines, the lists made this oenophiliac and beer-drinking Slow Foodie feel like a kid in Hidden Sweets. Boston brewery Harpoon figures prominently in the draught and bottle...
In San Diego and Imperial counties alone, bankruptcy filings have increased 379%, spiking from 4,210 in 2006, the peak of the housing boom, to 20,193 in 2009. Nationally, more than 1.4 million business and consumer bankruptcy petitions were filed in 2009, up 32% from the 2008 figure, and...