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...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 (it's 1808, if you're just tuning...
Riley even taught All-American defenseman Noah Welch when the latter was a seventh-grader at Catholic Memorial in West Roxbury...
There are, alas, no quick fixes. Dyslexic students often have to put many more hours into their course work than naturally skilled readers do. But the results are worth it. In the seventh grade, Sean Slattery was barely reading on a first-grade level. Now, after four years at the Frostig Center, he has nearly caught up to where he should be. In May, on his third try, Slattery passed California's high school exit exam...
Returning to New York, I’d say that most Harvard students I know from the city—along with those who happen to be working and living in New York for the summer—dismiss New Jersey as only marginally nicer than the seventh concentric circle of Dante’s Inferno. To be sure, often when I hang out in Manhattan with a Harvard friend, he or she gives me a really sad, sympathetic look when I tell them that I should be getting home. (It’s sort of like the look your...
...vivid portrayals in such films as The Postman Always Rings Twice (as a Machiavellian lawyer) and Brute Force (as a sadistic prison guard). He often appeared with his wife of 52 years, Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis) to the memorable skinny-dip in the 1985 Cocoon; and on Broadway as a loving, bickering pair in The Gin Game. To her queen, he was the wry, uncommon commoner...