Waterstone's again

A Very Good Week

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July 20th 2005
I guess the really great thing about London is that you can run into red-carpet movie premieres while you're just wandering around looking for a cafe. In my case, the European premiere of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. The crazed fans weren't in a line, they were just a huge mass of people waiting to get let in, and so somehow when the police did let everyone in to the red carpet area, I a ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more