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...leaders never meet face-to-face in the film. At home, Mary Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton of “In America”) hungrily eyes Elizabeth’s throne, while the arrival of a new figure in the court—Clive Owen’s Sir Walter Raleigh—stirs a rebellious and simultaneously vulnerable streak in Elizabeth. Most striking about the two films are their portrayals of Elizabeth as a breathing, feeling, and mortal being. Because history credits her reign as one of the most prosperous and glorious of England’s past...
...should be opened by the Harvard president at the outset of the next century “and not before.” I broke the seal on this mysterious package to find a remarkable letter from my predecessor. It was addressed to “My dear Sir.” Conant wrote with a sense of imminent danger. He feared an impending World War III that would make “the destruction of our cities including Cambridge quite possible...
...addressed to 'My dear Sir,'" Faust said, causing the audience to erupt into laughter and applause. "Conant wrote with a sense of imminent danger. He feared an impending World War III that would make, as he put it, 'the destruction of our cities including Cambridge quite possible...
...make a little extra money." Its main character, initially called Sherringford Hope and later rechristened Sherlock Holmes, was based largely on Bell. But Holmes' debut went almost unnoticed, and the struggling doctor devoted nearly all of his spare time to writing long historical novels in the vein of Sir Walter Scott - novels that he was convinced would make his reputation. It wasn't to be. In 1888, Holmes reappeared in A Scandal in Bohemia, a short story in Strand Magazine. An immediate hit, its hero took the foggy, crime-ridden London of gas street lights and Jack the Ripper...
...LONDON: When the Dorchester, tel: (44-20) 7629 8888, opened its stately doors in 1931, a four-bedroom apartment on the top floor was reserved exclusively for co-founder Sir Malcolm McAlpine. Today, it's available to anyone - or rather, anyone who can spare $35,000 a night (and is thus not merely anyone but probably a rather grand someone). The amenities include 24-carat gold-plated bath fixtures, a fully equipped hairdressing station and carpets woven with 22-carat gold and silver threads. This is the most expensive place to stay in town - quite a superlative, given the sorts...