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Having studied European history at Princeton and counterterrorism with the CIA, Stephanie Barron is as qualified as anybody to do the impossible: write a plausible mystery novel about Jane Austen. Yes, that Jane Austen, the real-life author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane and the Ghosts of Netley, the seventh book in Barron's Jane Austen series, begins with two murders: that of a shipwright, whose throat is slit by an unknown assailant, and that of a ship, a 74-gun British warship intended for use against the Emperor Bonaparte's forces...
...today's leaders so blind as to deny their failures? Isn't this stubbornness the result of a belief that admitting one's errors is abhorrent? It's a pity that the people in charge would nonchalantly throw away their potential to do good because of false pride. Maturity is required in leadership, but officials today think humility can lead to a loss of dignity. Ernesto Kelly Magtoto Las Pinas City, the Philippines...
...need an egalitarian approach to sports,” he continued. “We take as much pride in all our sports as we do in ones like football and hockey...
...Pride in all Harvard’s athletes and all her sports is something Veneziano never lacked, according to men’s basketball coach Frank Sullivan...
...Being in the South was a shocker for many of us,” Kang, who is from California, added. “We hadn’t had much experience with these wide-open plains and huge pickup tracks and lots of Texan pride...