William Trevor (born 1928), whose life and fictional settings were divided between his native Ireland and his adopted England, was a successful novelist, television dramatist, playwright, and, above a...
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William Trevor has established a solid reputation both in Britain and America as an exceptionally sensitive, morally concerned writer whose forte appears to be rendering comic pathos, whether in his n...
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William Trevor is considered one of the masters of the contemporary short story. The author of eleven novels and seven collections of short fiction, he was recognized for his contributions to literatu...
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Justine Henin beat Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-1, 6-3 Monday to win the J&S Cup for the second time in three years in a final delayed a day because of rain."To wait yesterday was pretty hard,...
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Dusseldorf, Germany (dpa) - The world number one Bryan brothers
rode to the rescue seeing the US to a first victory on Tuesday at the
ARAG World Team Championships.
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Taipei (dpa) - After being delayed for one day by rain, the 37th
Baseball World Cup kicked off in Taiwan Wednesday with 14 teams
competing for wins on the opening day.
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HANOI, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A typhoon heading for Vietnam has
weakened before reaching the central coast but was still
expected to spew heavy rain on Friday onto a region where
floods have killed nea...
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JAKARTA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Floods in Indonesia's capital
have killed three people and displaced nearly 100,000 after two
days of torrential rain, a health ministry official said on
Saturday. The d...
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Thousands of outrageously garbed men finally strolled up Broad Street on Saturday in balmy weather, five days after rain scratched the Mummers Parade's traditional New Year's Day start.The quirky p...
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Estoril, Portugal (dpa) - Richard Gasquet silenced the on-court
exclamations of Portugal's Frederico Gil with a 6-1, 6-2 victory into
the quarter-finals of the Estoril Open ...
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James Blake lost in slippery conditions to Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4, 6-3 Friday in the quarterfinals of the Gerry Weber Open.The 34th-ranked German broke Blake's serve at love to take a 5-4 lead i...
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Tim Henman won just his second ATP Tour match this year on Tuesday, beating Michael Russell of the United States 6-1, 7-6 (5) at the Nottingham Open.Henman struggled to hold serve in the second set...
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New Delhi (dpa) - The flood situation in India's north-eastern
state of Assam has worsened, with thousands of people marooned
overnight due to breaches in embankments and sw...
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