It is my last one and it is even sweeter winning it. He added: “The crowd gave me an amazing cheer and my son is here and my wife is watching at home. I don’t know if I want to cry, laugh or enjoy it. It has been tremendous after what happened at Newbury and I thought, ‘At least stay on this time’. “It is difficult to win Classic races and to cap my last season with victory in one is beyond my wildest dreams. It is my last 2,000 Guineas, and to win it in front of my home crowd is amazing. But I saw plenty of daylight and then I thought, ‘I can’t believe this is happening’. “I was in a fight with Oisin and once I got rid of him I thought something was going to come. Now it is sinking in and the tears are coming. “I’m not dreaming, am I?,” asked Dettori. Only a victory for Dettori on Saga, beaten a head earlier on Coronation day in the royal silks, could have made it any better for the effervescent jockey who Balding described as an “omnipresent superstar” in racing throughout his adult life. Unlike in the Greenham Stakes a fortnight ago, this time the race could not have gone more to plan for the Chaldean camp and there was not the semblance of a mistake.
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"Who can resist a book about an endangered animal by renowned conservationist Jane Goodall?” Jane Goodall's many followers and all animal-loving children and adult picture book fans will be riveted by this suspenseful and heartwarming fictional story set in China and including an authoritative informational page about pangolins and suggestions for how to help fight animal trafficking. To the rescue comes a small girl who knows that pangolins are friendly fellow creatures who have feelings too, and who convinces her mother to buy Pangolina and set her free. Pangolina is especially vulnerable, since her scales are prized by humans who believe they have curative powers. But one day cruel hunters trap Pangolina, putting her into a cage along with her friends, and bring them to a market to be sold as wild game. 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Unless otherwise indicated, translations are mine.ġ Gloria Steinem, “Living the Revolution: Commencement Address at Vassar College” (May 31, 1970), reprinted in Vassar: The Alumnae/i Quarterly 98, no. For their close readings, I would also like to thank Michael Alpert, Juliet Spies-Gans, and the two anonymous reviewers for The Art Bulletin. I am exceedingly grateful to the following colleagues and friends for encouraging this piece and engaging with its arguments at key stages of its development: David Bell, Alexander Bevilacqua, Ann Blair, Jennifer Chuong, Patrick Crowley, Dena Goodman, Anthony Grafton, Lynn Hunt, Melissa Hyde, Marion Kadi, Abhishek Kaiker, Jane Kamensky, Abram Kaplan, Madhav Khosla, Joseph Koerner, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Naomi Levine, and Sarah Ross. It helped that there were always books around the house. She knew that it explained her passion for storytelling.Įven as a child, Elle Cosimano loved to read. She knew that her imagination held the key to her future. 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