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...shot. If it was just a couple of inches to the left, that would have been the difference. That seemed to summarize our weekend in a fifteen-second span...
Martin du Gard wrote his book over a span of 17 years--from 1941 until his death in 1958--and believed it would be his masterpiece. He had won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his eight-volume novel Les Thibault, the story of two brothers--one a reckless adventurer, the other a sensible physician, during World War I. Du Gard stated often that Tolstoy was his greatest creditor; Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort displays the extent of this debt, with its high moral tone and extensive, incisive depictions of both country and city society. Despite this, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort...
...work at Harvard has covered nearly as broad a span as that. Her trains of thought, which often originate in her chosen field of English literature, have ended up in all kinds of places...
Then Sturdy single-handedly took over the Harvard offense. In a 3:25 span, Sturdy scored 11 of Harvard's 13 points. When the dust settled, the Crimson trailed only...
...tell you much about the man who is now their King, it was because his ascent to the throne was such a surprise. The eldest son of the late King Hussein was a career military officer, the longtime heir apparent being Hussein's younger brother Hassan. But in the span of two dramatic weeks exactly one year ago, Hussein sacked Hassan, named Abdullah the new heir, suffered a cancer relapse and died. Many Jordanians feared that their small country would not survive without "the father." But now Abdullah is leading his kingdom into an era where building efficient, modern states...