There’s a popular internet meme that says, “In a world full of Kardashians be a Grace,” referencing the classic style tastes of the late actress Grace Kelly. Queen’s University Belfast, a prestigious college in Ireland, recently made the same recommendation to its students in an article on what to wear for their graduation ceremony. Those
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Comes this e-mail to me today from one Mr. Bintou Ojabo, with the subject line reading “I need your full trust”: DEAR ONE, PLEASE PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE MY SELF TO YOU, MY NAME IS BINTOU OJABO, I AM 19 YEARS OLD, I AM THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR.DAVID OJABO WHO WAS A FAMOUS
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As I was walking out the door of a CVS last week, a woman walked right into a man standing in place and kept going without a word. The man was visibly perturbed, and finally after a few seconds asked with exasperation, “Could you please just say ‘I’m sorry?’” He sounded desperate, as if in
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CNN recently ran an article in which a number of older, more experienced mothers weighed in on the difference between raising children today and raising them 30 to 50 years ago. Each of the mothers contributed interesting insight, but veteran mother Judy Wallace hit upon one of the big elephants looming in the realm of
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The early trailers for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) were released last (northern) summer, which means my favourite season in life as a medievalist academic is coming: the season of The Truth About King Arthur. It doesn’t matter if the movie itself is good or bad: the question I will be
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Via CBS News: A political discussion in a college class touched off a firestorm, CBS Los Angeles reports. A college professor went off on President-elect Donald Trump in her Orange Coast College class. There are now threats of legal action. The human sexuality teacher, Olga Perez Stable Cox, called Mr. Trump’s election “an act of
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