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...good time. Their holiday “partying” traditions are showcased in “The Christmas Revels,” an annual show by production company Revels, Inc., with this year’s theme inspired by Thomas Hardy’s novels and set in Wessex, England. Playing at Sanders Theatre through Dec. 30, “Revels” includes everything from clogging to caroling to serpent playing (the serpent being a snake shaped, British musical instrument of yore). Though jaunty and lighthearted throughout, the show ultimately asks the audience to question why tradition...
...Chinese readers in a 1996 poll as their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid a spot on the literary landscape as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is among many admirers who insist that Mo Yan deserves the gong himself. Given the prize committee's distaste for success, that means he'll probably never...
Soon after, then-Trade and Industry Minister Peter Mandelson chose not to submit the company's $2 billion takeover of the a British utility called Wessex Water to a review by antitrust authorities. This coincidence did not go unnoticed by the nation's broadsheet press: it received the mild scandal treatment in the left-wing Sunday newspaper, the Observer, while the daily Independent wryly called the decision "a test case for companies which have made donations to the Labour Party." In 1999, the party itself held an internal inquiry scrutinizing the payments. But soon the story was mostly forgotten, filed...
Which brings us to Sophie Rhys-Jones. The last few weeks have been no fairy tale for Queen Elizabeth's newest daughter-in-law. She had her own public relations business before she married Prince Edward in 1999 to become H.R.H. the Countess of Wessex. She seemed perfect for the post-Diana media fishbowl--a p.r. executive with stage presence, delighted to be part of the Firm instead of throwing acid on it. Then Sophie fell for the oldest trick in the tabloid book...
Once upon a time, there was an overly ambitious p.r. exec named SOPHIE WESSEX (alias Sophie Rhys-Jones, alias Countess of Wessex, a.k.a. wife of Prince Edward). One evening she met a handsome Arab, whom the Countess charmed so he would live happily ever after as her client. Alas for her! Her future intended (client) was actually white-robed undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, hired by the ruthless press baron Rupert Murdoch to tape their talk. The villain offered Sophie a choice: have a deeply personal chat with the News of the World, and the tapes would be hers. Or else...