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...accomplished English cricketer, in 1864. But over the past few years - especially under the stewardship of New Zealand writer Graeme Wright and its current editor, British newspaper journalist Matthew Engel - the Almanack has been updated for the 21st century. A photograph now graces the front cover, replacing the old wood engraving of two Victorian gents in top hats playing cricket, which had appeared on the cover since 1938. Inside there are well-written features alongside the usual lists of records and scorecards of all major cricket games from the previous year, and a section on cricket's spread...
From 1970 to 1978, Wood was president of the University of Massachusetts system...
...wonderful teacher of undergraduates,” said Margaret Wood. “He urged students to go into public service, and many of them...
...father just believed that every person he came across counted and he taught me, as a new politician, that remembering people’s names is much less important than taking the time to get to know them,” said State Sen. Margaret Wood Hassan D-N.H., one of Wood’s daughters. “[He] taught us all that being smart was never enough, it was being good...
...Jamie Pressly) takes him to bed and is murdered during the night, he goes on a rampage to punish those responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...