Short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is noted for her short stories with themes relating to women's lives and social hierarchies as well as her sense of wit and characterizations.Katheri...
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Even before she died at the age of thirty-four Katherine Mansfield had achieved a reputation as one of the most talented writers of the modern short story in English. From 1910 publications in periodi...
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Red Hook, along with the rest of latter-day South Brooklyn, continues to be dragged upward (hello, Fairway?), but vestiges do remain of a not-so-distant past when longshoremen outnumbered loft conv...
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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has been confined to a wheelchair for most of his adult life, expects weightlessness to feel like "bliss" when he goes on a "zero-gravity" flight Thursday aboard...
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I don't like being touched by strangers. Not even when they're massage therapists.
But touched by a machine? Now that's another story.
The setting for my tale of mechanical massag...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Holder James Blake rallied from a set down with
to earn a 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-2 win over Olivier Rochus and reach
another the semi-finals of the Stockholm Op...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Holder James Blake rallied from a set down with
to earn a 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-2 win over Olivier Rochus and reach
another semi-finals of the Stockholm Open F...
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Taipei (dpa) - The film Emma's Bliss by German director Sven
Toddicken won the 30,000-US-dollar Grand Prize at the 2007 Taipei
Film Festival on Friday.
A repr...
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Princeton, N.J., is well known for its university, but itâs acquiring a different reputation in the opera worldâas the countryâs classiest libret...
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Getting ready for a trade show involves more than just making sure you have a few fliers to hand out. Grabbing attention for your product or service before, during and after a convention is key to ...
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