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...spirit of Wallace rousing Scots once more to demand freedom? Not really. In the town of Stirling itself, there are few mentions of Braveheart outside the Thistles Shopping Centre - just yellow balloons tied to a trestle table laid out with leaflets and buttons bearing the SNP logo. In recent years the party has softened its stance, moving away from the notion that winning a majority vote would give it a mandate to negotiate independence. The party now proposes a referendum first...
...school or town could absorb the mass killing of April 16 without scars. But as the students and townies here returned to classes and volleyball and walking their babies and dogs, they were, to borrow from a poet, "making the best of their way back to life/ And living people, and things they understand." Yet how strange to pass suddenly from the year-end thrill of a spirited campus to the horror of a mad gunman, to the glare of the global media and to blinking back toward something familiar. "And I don't think it's going...
...wasn’t too stressful for Yale when it endured a replica run of six games in four days, from April 7-10, with Sacred Heart in town for a Tuesday doubleheader in the aftermath of Saturday and Monday double dips with Columbia. In fact, you could argue that arrangement was even more wearying, without Monday to recuperate...
...complacency of the city's entrenched party élite. He spurned the usual perquisites of public office - the country dacha, the ZIL limousine, the special shops and the insularity of working behind a telephone-covered desk. He and his wife, Naina, lived in an apartment near the center of town, from which he drove to work or, frequently, took a bus or the subway - to the shock and delight of citizens accustomed to seeing nothing of party big shots but the gray curtains of their speeding ZILs. His popularity increased when he began breezing into food and clothing stores, scolding...
Throughout the show, song after song made music out of every possible plot element: town bustle, manly camaraderie, and failure as a father were just a few of the individual songs’ themes. On the whole, the music is well written, and although the harmonies occasionally faltered on opening night, Jennings lived up to the reputation of Rapunzel, sweetly serenading the audience from her perch at the back of the room...