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...Philip Pullman is tall and handsome and pink-faced in that way that older Englishmen often are. His conversation easily ranges from theoretical physics to the work of John Milton. He's like one of those wise, stern-but-humorous uncles usually played in movies by Michael Caine or Jim Broadbent. He doesn't look particularly satanic. But then again, neither, probably, does Satan...
...would be hard for a student at Harvard—or any resident of Cambridge, for that matter—to dislike a book in which nearly every major event takes place near the Yard and nearly every major personality is a graduate of the University. Philip Gura’s “American Transcendentalism” is full of Harvard references, showing how deeply connected the Transcendental movement was to the University. But though it may be amusing to hear about Harvard’s bicentennial, there is much more to Gura’s complex history...
...Earlier, Brent Drake, a college friend of Pring-Wilson’s, and Philip Najm, a former rugby teammate, testified as character witnesses for the defense. Drake said that Pring-Wilson’s “peacefulness” never changed while intoxicated...
...bigger worry for Branson is that some larger shareholders are coming out against the deal. Philip Richards, CEO of the hedge-fund RAB Capital, which owns 6.5 % of the bank, released a statement saying, "We do not believe that this proposal reflects the true value of Northern Rock and we would expect either that this proposal be improved or that alternative proposals be brought forward...
...Along with British royalty, beneficiaries include multinational food companies such as Nestle, Cadbury, Kraft; drug companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, and brewers like Heineken and Grolsch. Money even flows to tobacco giant Philip Morris, the oil behemoth Shell and even the airline Air France-KLM. British sugar giant Tate & Lyle alone received more than $443 million over a two-year period. TIME has recently chronicled similar patterns in U.S. farm subsidies...