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...millennium or so ago, the archipelago from Hudson Bay through Nunavut to northern Greenland was inhabited by nomadic groups we now call the Dorset people. They were, according to Inuit legend, tall and gentle folk, and they hunted from the ice edge, harpooning seals and walruses with tools made of bone and ivory. When a slight warming period hit about 1,000 years ago, the ice receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still...
...from experience, that the next three years are going to be great.Congratulations are in order for those of you who got into Mather (full disclosure: I live there). You won the housing lottery. If you didn’t get in, though, don’t worry too much. Legend has it that 90 percent of graduating seniors think their house is the best one. Sure that’s “statistically impossible,” but it’s wonderfully indicative of the kind of adventure you’re about to begin.Although...
...Collingham tells the story of how the culinary habits of conquerors and conquered got jumbled up in India with great flair, drawing on historical records and local lore to color her tale. Thus she relates the legend, still prevalent in the Indian city of Lucknow, that the local shammi kebab, a mincemeat patty, is made with particularly fine meat because a toothless 18th century Nawab would otherwise not have been able to gnaw his way through it. If all these stories make you hungry, Collingham thoughtfully supplies several historically accurate recipes, ranging from the zard birinj, a rice dish eaten...
...brokenhearted guy who can't stop listening to brokenhearted ballads, delivers a light, genre-spoofing twist, but the other songs soar less on writerly sophistication than on Ne-Yo's deftness with a hook and particularly sincere brand of shamelessness. On It Just Ain't Right, he samples '80s legend DeBarge and confesses to an old girlfriend, "I'll be sexing her and I call your name"--a lyric that could have been written by a hundred of his predecessors, but only Ne-Yo would think to deliver it as if it were the world's highest compliment...
...vaudeville wannabe who murders her lover after he walks out on her. Sent to jail, she quickly discovers that she can win both freedom and fame by playing off of the sympathy of the scandal-loving city of Chicago. Meanwhile, fellow jailbird and vaudeville legend Velma Kelly (Anna Haas) jealously tries to win back the spotlight as the year’s most sensational murderess...