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...long way, sometimes even this relatively small amount isn't completely spent (partly due also to the researchers' profit motive to keep what's left over). The combination of stinginess and the automatic tendency of students to gravitate towards socially geared locations gives the books a youthful slant...
...That complaint may be valid. "Britain considered India the cornerstone of its empire," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Much of British foreign policy was designed around protecting its access to India. But the U.S. hasn't taken India nearly as seriously, partly because of the leftist slant of most of its post-independence governments." New Delhi's nonaligned position during the Cold War (which often put it in the Soviet camp, diplomatically) was underscored by the socialist orientation of most of its governments since independence. Relations particularly deteriorated in the early '70s, after the Nixon administration aligned Washington closely...
...Harry Potter books on the fiction bestseller list might indicate about the typical reader of today, just as interesting is the number of biographies on the nonfiction list. Of the top 15 bestsellers last week, only two non-fiction books can be classified as having no biographical content or slant whatsoever...
...sensory level is downright astonishing. Scott Bradley's sets are a work of art in themselves, something of a cross between installation art and Isamu Noguchi's minimalist sets for the New York City Ballet. Add to that the light design of John Ambrosone, for whom no slant of light or subtlety of shading is unattainable, and the stoic formalism of Catherine Zuber's costumes, which make Chekov's rural social philosophers seem as though they could just melt into the landscape, and you have a two-hour-long painting on the stage. Yeremin's staging makes every...
...short punt and a Brown penalty gave the Crimson the ball at midfield. The Crimson then managed to convert twice in a row on third down, as freshman flanker Kyle Cremarosa made a clutch catch in the middle for 18 yards and Patterson got open on a slant for 11 yards...