![]() In 1990, the series was rebroadcast with host Linda Chavez moderating the episodes. The first half of each episode follows Milton Friedman as he discusses free market issues in locations around the world the second half is devoted to debates between Friedman and other scholars and experts. Friedman accepts capitalism as the best political system available, as it offers the highest degree of individual freedom. First edition, early printing of Friedmans persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. ![]() Friedman, accompanied by a ten-part series broadcast on public television, that advocates free market principles. The series argues that free market principles are best for society as a whole, whether in commerce, trade, or education. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement is a 1980 book by economists Milton and Rose D. It aired on PBS beginning in January 1980 and in the same year was developed into a book, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement. Free to Choose was a ten-part television series developed by Milton and Rose Friedman. ![]() Friedman explains how markets and voluntary exchange organize activity and enable people to improve their lives. ![]() ![]() Notes America's freedom and prosperity derive from the combination of the idea of human liberty in America's Declaration of Independence with the idea of economic freedom in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. ![]()
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![]() With just three alternates available for the Derby, Forte's scratch reduces the size of the field to 18 horses. No immediate reason was given for Forte's removal, which came following a morning workout, though the horse stumbled during an on-track workout on Thursday. The storyline of Derby week has been the number of horses scratched from the race, as four were removed from the field in a 24-hour period from Thursday to Friday before morning-line favorite Forte became the fifth horse scratched on Saturday roughly 10 hours before post time. ![]() Equal parts party and pageantry, the Derby has been staged every year at Churchill Downs without interruption since the inaugural running on May 17, 1875. The country's oldest, continuously held major sporting event returns on Saturday when 20 3-year-old horses leave the starting gate in the 2023 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In luxury manuscripts, an entire page might be devoted to a historiated initial. Letters that began a new section of text or a noteworthy section might receive more decoration and space. The size and decoration of the initial were related to its importance and location. Historiated and inhabited letters were used in illuminated manuscripts and were first seen in the early 8th century. Figurative initials are closely related, the form of the letter itself is made up of contorted bodies of people or creatures. An inhabited initial contains figures (human or animal) that are decorative only. Huens, Grosset & Dunlap, 1957.Ī historiated initial is an enlarged letter at the beginning of a paragraph or other section of text, which contains a picture or subject matter related to the text. From Cinderella and Other Stories retold by Jeanne Cappe, illustrated by J.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Considering that the guidebook began life as a prop in a single scene from 2001's Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (she turned the prop book into an actual book while the film was in post-production), however, a feature film as the next logical step actually starts to make sense. Thin on dramatic material but rich in the kind of detailed minutia that often supplemented Tolkien's epic works, Rowling's guidebook certainly doesn't seem like an obvious jumping off point. So far as adapting a 90-page encyclopedic primer into a 2 and 1/4 hour fantasy full of engaging characters and dazzling spectacle, Fantastic Beasts definitely deserves high marks. In this PG-13-rated fantasy adventure, writer Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) finds a treasure trove of briefcase-dwelling beasties unleashed in 1930s New York City. Rowling's wizarding world with a spun-off tale that's at times, well, fantastical. Though slightly less magical than the best of the Harry Potter film series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them nonetheless re-establishes audiences in J.K. Rating: PG-13 (Some Fantasy/Action Violence) Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident, were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds. ![]() The year is 1926, and Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the first book in the Wicked Wallflowers series, but it’s a spin-off of another series I didn’t read. The Hellion is book 1 of the Wicked Wallflowers series by Christi Caldwell. ![]() It could unravel the families’ tenuous truce and shatter the unpredictably sinful romance mounting between the hellion…and a scoundrel who could pass for the devil himself. There’s only one thing that threatens the rules of the game: Cleopatra’s secret. But she will not allow her head to be turned by the infuriating and darkly handsome Adair Thorne. That said, she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her siblings―even if that means being sponsored by their rivals for a season in order to land a noble husband. If she were anyone else but the enemy, she’d ignite a desire in him that would be impossible to control. His fury and passion burn even hotter when he meets Cleopatra Killoran, a tart-mouthed vixen who mocks him at every turn. USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell’s Wicked Wallflowers series burns hot as two rivals meet in the flesh and feel the heat…Īdair Thorne has just watched his gaming-hell dream disappear into a blaze of fire and ash, and he’s certain that his competitors, the Killorans, are behind it. The Hellion (Wicked Wallflowers, #1) by Christi CaldwellĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With Adam around, Kate feels like she just might have a bit of heartbreaker potential after all. That is, until Sarah's cute, witty friend Adam starts drawing Kate into the fold-and seems intrigued. Any dreams Kate once had of a perfect summer are ruined. To add to the shame, the Cooper-Melnicks' gorgeous daughter Sarah is a bit like Lady Brett, and she seems less than thrilled to hang out with her new houseguest. If Kate were Lady Brett Ashley, the devastating heroine of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, she'd spend her summers careering around the Riviera in her coupe, breaking hearts by the dozen-because why not? In reality, Kate's never even had a boyfriend, and she'll be spending the summer abetting her mom's lame ploy to make her dad jealous: running off to Cape Cod and crashing at the seaside home of her wealthy friends, the Cooper-Melnicks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() THE WRITING - Elle Kennedy didn’t just do her job well, she brought a rocket and strapped her words onto it. ![]() (Fun fact: This is my favorite book is the whole series). I couldn’t put this book down. Shocker? Totally not. This time around, she’ll be the one in the driver’s seat…and she plans on driving him wild. ![]() He wants her back? He’ll have to work for it. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. She’s not a charity case, and she’s not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he’s worth a second chance.Īfter a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he’ll be forced to walk after graduation. Genres: College Romance, Sport, ContemporaryĬollege junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. ![]() ![]() Years went by and she got into a groove of writing novels instead of short stories. “I think I tried to write a version of this story in about 2004 or 5,” Sittenfeld said, but nothing came of it. She started off by saying that it doesn’t ever say that it’s set in an MFA program, “but it’s definitely set in an MFA program.” She then read from her short story, “Show Don’t Tell,” which appeared in a 2017 issue of The New Yorker. ![]() Kangkang discussed Sittenfeld’s 2020 novel, Rodham, a reimagining of Hillary Clinton’s life had she remained as Hilary Rodham instead, and the ways in which it acts as a “thoughtful defiance to cynicism.” She went on to discuss the emotional authenticity of the text which rings true for the rest of Sittenfeld’s work.Īfter a round of applause, Sittenfeld took the stage. ![]() The audience buzzed with excitement, but before Sittenfeld stepped up to the podium to read, MFA director, Anthony Varallo, greeted the audience, presented an overview of Sittenfeld’s work, and introduced Dorothea Benton Frank Fellow, Kangkang Kovacs. On the evening of March 14th, Curtis Sittenfeld read to a full house at Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall. ![]() ![]() Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. ![]() Amid the glittering fetes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown. Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. ![]() > "Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover (illustrator). ![]() ![]() When attending promotional luncheons with fellow authors, he would make a point of reading their latest work. Wolfe was both a literary upstart, sneering at the perceived stuffiness of the publishing establishment, and an old-school gentleman who went to the best schools and encouraged Michael Lewis and other younger writers. An ingenious phrase maker, he helped brand such expressions as “radical chic” for rich liberals’ fascination with revolutionaries and the “Me” generation, defining the self-absorbed baby boomers of the 1970s. ![]() His hyperbolic, stylized writing work was a gleeful fusillade of exclamation points, italics and improbable words. ![]() ![]() Milt Larsen, Co-Founder of The Magic Castle in Hollywood, Dies at 92 ![]() |