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iStock The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.” – Robert Browning – Salt-N-Pepa Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” writes that the sacrament of marriage “involves a series of obligations born of love itself, a love so serious and generous that it is ready to face any risk” (No. 131). After four decades of marriage, I get that. My husband and I have seriously and generously faced all sorts of obligations and risks that have ...

Anne Buydens Douglas, who died April 29 at age 102, collaborated with her husband Kirk Douglas in extraordinarily generous philanthropic ventures. The couple, both of whom reached their centenary, showed that advanced age can be accompanied by heightened humanistic values. Born Hannelore Marx in Hanover, Germany, to a family of wealthy industrialists, she acquired business smarts directly from her father. This acumen served her well decades later in 1954 when she married Douglas, a movie star w...

Derby 2021! Live Longshots – Super Stock, King Fury, Midnight Bourbon With apologies to Robert Browning: The year’s at the spring And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The snail’s on the thorn; The Derby’s back on May 1— All’s right with the world! All is most certainly not right with the world – but it’s a whole bunch better than where we were a year ago this time. While my family and I have had our challenges this year (anybody wanna talk about the joys of homeschoo...

Franz Liszt at a social gathering in 1885 or ’86 graciously agrees to perform Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata: “He had only played the opening triplets, however, when I felt as if the room no longer held me, and when, after the first four bars, the G sharp came in in the right hand I was completely carried away. Not that he accentuated this G sharp; it was simply that he gave it an entirely new sound which even now, after twenty seven years, I can hear distinctly.” ...

The 141-year-old building is where engineer Guglielmo Marconi established the worlds first wireless communications. It was rebuilt in 1926 and hailed as a seaside architectural triumph. The Haven Hotel housed Belgian refugees during the First World War and became a military contact point during the Second World War. It was purchased by FJB Hotels in 1976 and has since hosted a range of notable guests. These include poet Robert Browning, John Major and the Real Madrid football team, fe...

Trustees: Purdue to add civics literacy requirement for incoming class, option for all students Note to journalists: Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Monday (April 19) announced its plan to adopt a civics literacy graduation requirement for undergraduates, beginning with students who enter Purdue in fall 2021. The board will vote on the requirement at its June 11 public meeting. The civics li...

Country Life Trending: Maida Vale took its name from a small Italian town and an even smaller pub, so it’s the perfect place to celebrate the end of lockdown, says Carla Passino. It’s strange to walk around Maida Vale’s stately roads and think that none of this existed until 200 years ago. Of course, woods and fields had long occupied the stretch of land north of Paddington, but the area had no name of its own. Then a battle changed everything. When, in 1806, the British troops inf...

UMB News Support UMBs Increasing Efforts to Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic During this important period, please consider supporting UMBs critical vaccine research and development, advancing its work in human virology, and donating to critical emergency funds especially designed for specific students in need.  We truly appreciate your gifts in this time of great need.  April 9, 2021 “Grow old with me,” poet Robert Browning famously wrote. “The best is yet to be.” That ...

By Letters to the Editor Send us your views on the weeks news The Sandbanks Peninsula I WAS travelling on the No. 50 Morebus to Swanage the other day and I sat chatting to a lovely couple who informed me about FJB group owners of the three hotels in Sandbanks wanting to demolish the Haven Hotel and replace it with exclusive flats, because there was subsidence. By demolishing the Haven they could reconstruct Sand...

… are you reading now? Luster by Raven Leilani — a novel about a young black woman trying to navigate the worlds of work and love and relationships.  It manages to capture a modern landscape of sexual and racial politics, while also being very funny. I love reading books with a vivid heroine at the centre — and by that I dont mean she has to be perfect, or some stereotype of a strong woman, but just a woman who is unique, complicated and dealing with the business of being alive. Tracey T...