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...conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched." And Nirad Chaudhuri, in perhaps the least acerbic assessment, is dismissed as a pedant better suited to academia...
Those schoolboy days ended at age 17, when Stoppard went to work for a newspaper in Bristol. He covered the police beat and routine local news, but he also got to interview visiting celebrities--New Orleans jazz musicians, British movie-glamour queen Diana Dors. "I was so thrilled being a reporter," he says, "because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet." After a few years, he moved to London, where he continued to write reviews and celebrity profiles. In 1960 he talked his way into a trip to New York...
...them. “Harvard prepared me in a great way for having my eyes opened, for asking questions, but it’s definitely been in my time since school that I’ve really started learning and getting involved,” she said in the interview. Portman, the FINCA International Ambassador of Hope and co-chair of the organization’s Village Banking Campaign, along with Jordan’s Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, said that microfinance could work successfully even in a “for-profit” environment...
...cyberlaw, attended a meeting with Frank in Washington to discuss the measure. “I’m in support of [the bill], but I’m dubious about its likelihood of passage,” Nesson, who is an online poker player himself, said in an interview. “I...much more strongly support an initiative that would recognize the legality of tournament poker.” Nesson said he is studying what introducing such a more limited bill would involve. Nesson’s defense of tournament poker is grounded in the idea that...
...think it’s exciting to go back to Brown where I studied and help them make a major transition from a national university to a global university,” Kennedy, who received his bachelor’s degree from Brown, said in an interview yesterday. Tompkins emphasized Kennedy’s experience in international law, saying that it made him stand out from the pool of over 300 applicants for the job. “He’s a scholar of enormous accomplishment and international reputation,” Tompkins said. “During...