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...weekend’s competition.“With only five races, it’s hard to get a very accurate reading on where people really stand,” Garrity said. The A-division boat of sophomore skipper Alan Palmer and senior crew Lauren Brants placed twelfth overall in their division, but their weekend was marked by steady improvement. After a disappointing 19th-place finish in the initial race, Palmer and Brants inched up in the standings, recording a weekend-best sixth in the final race of the regatta.Garrity skippered the B-division boat, joined by sophomore crew...
...Couples will love little touches like the nightly rituals based on Loy Krathong and Comb Loy. These festivals both occur in the twelfth month of the lunar year, but at the Banyan Tree Phuket they are celebrated every night - by making wishes and floating candles down the lagoon (a practice during Loy Krathong), or by writing a wish on paper, tying it to a giant lantern and watching it go up into the starlit sky (as the Thais do during Comb Loy). You'll head back to your villa afterward to find that the staff haven't left chocolates...
...current rules of English too hard to learn should have their spelling labeled variant, not wrong. Smith zeroes in on 10 candidates for variant spellings, culled from his students' most commonly misspelled (or mispelled, as Smith suggests) words. Among them are Febuary instead of February, twelth instead of twelfth and truely instead of truly - all words, he says, that involve confusion over silent letters. When students would ask why there's no e in truly, Smith didn't really have an answer. "I'd say, 'Well, I don't know. ... You've just got to drop it because people...
Shakespeare and speakeasies may not be a common match, but the Hyperion Shakespeare Company hopes it proves to be an exciting one. Set in the Roaring 20s, the company’s reinvention of “Twelfth Night” looks to wed the Shakespearian classic’s timeless comedy with the Jazz Age’s wonderful music, dance, and booze. The idea first surfaced during Hyperion’s search for a director. For the second year in a row, the company decided to have their production professionally directed. They knew they found their...
...Hank was a terrific headmaster,” Brownstein said. “And it’s a very difficult job, dealing with the range of kids from kindergarten to twelfth grade and being able to relate to all of them. He was a figure in the hallway...