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...reaped praise and prestige from her labors while keeping her in salaried obscurity. (Discreetly, she refers to him only as "Tiger," after the lifelike tiger-skin rug that adorned his lavish Soho office.) In 1981, Tiger hired Erdal, then an editor and translator on the east coast of Scotland, to develop Russian authors for his Quartet Books. She found him to be demanding, impetuous and thoroughly charming, with a child's enthusiasm and an immigrant's fractured English. "His sentences were a riot of hangers and danglers," she notes. She soon found herself wrestling not with Russian prose but with...
...says Samuels. There is an important distinction between the Celtic and the Irish; “ ‘Celtic’ is a convenient label for an actually much more diverse cultural grouping,” remarks Wallace, a native Londoner. The nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales generally comprise the cultural regions collectively called “Celtic...
...Protestants left pipe bombs near a Catholic school in Belfast in 2001 and 2003. Last November, arsonists set fire to a new wing of an Orthodox Jewish school in Gagny, a suburb east of Paris. Sixteen children and their teacher were shot dead at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996. Two teenagers cut down 12 fellow pupils and a coach at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. And an expelled student killed 16 people in a shooting rampage at a high school in Erfurt, Germany, in 2002. So school officials everywhere know better than to assume that...
...senior league season— the second-tier adult league—I set a new record for British single season receiving yards and making it to the Division 2 playoffs. But it wasn’t the stats or the results that made my nine months in Scotland the proverbial “time of my life.” No, it was the dope collection of guys I played with and the absolute insanity of Scottish football...
...from each other, their love for this sport in a world where their football is the other football, united them. After years of scoffing at my Harvard roommate’s stories of the bond he shared with his high school teammates, I had to eat my words in Scotland. I was out with my football boyz every day and night, and my American roommates got annoyed when I announced that I was “chilling with my football buddies” or when I got my Tigers team sweatshirt personalized with my “Tigers...