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...Gilmour devotes just a small portion of the book to Victoria and Disraeli. The Indian Civil Service (ICS) becomes the preliminary focus of Gilmour’s book, which includes letters, pictures, and diagrams that encompass the British experience within their precious jewel of India...
...wasn’t poring over the philosophy of William James or the tenets of Java programming language while my classmates blew off steam in exotic locales—my studying wasn’t of that conventional academic type. What I devoted much of the precious break to was preparing for my annual Rotisserie baseball draft, an event that I had been anticipating ever since the Chicago White Sox nailed down the last out in their shocking championship run last October, ushering in the cold, depressing vacuum of four months without baseball...
...adds Richards. “It really does appeal to a wide audience and we did try a few new things, breaking away from the Harvard focus.” According to Johnson, the musical is about a boy who tries to escape his unpleasant family by selling a precious heirloom at the Antiques Roadshow. “It’s accessible to the entire community,” says Nicholas N. Commins ’09, the lyricist and composer. “We tried to make this play accessible to everybody who has ever watched public television...
...Making a full-season squad is the ultimate goal for every player at Spring Training. Doing so affords you a certain amount of security, which is a precious commodity in the life of a minor leaguer...
...Kingdom” is only a partial success. The writing is at times clumsy, and almost every character seems cut out of cardboard (something especially evident when a burly Scotland Yard cop hilariously bullies Barker with the prospect of preventing him from teaching his “precious physical training classes” and when the criminal mastermind maniacally blathers like the worst sort of Bond villain). Still, Thomas maintains a brisk pace, and the read is quick and often...