Many times, this means that students are not prepared for the challenges a new life in the United States will present, away from their families and hired help.

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"What we think happens is that the ones that do have good survival in early life is because they either have a mother present in the group or they have a very knowledgeable matriarch, " she said.

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Ms Harrington even got tickets to tour England's Highclere Castle, the real-life setting for the show, in July as a birthday present from her husband.

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Mr Blair reiterates ad nauseam his promise to the Liberal Democrats that he intends to stand by his pledge to hold a referendum on electoral reform, albeit not in the life of the present Parliament.

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The result blends a vivid account of daily life, fluid and unsettling, in a modern British town with powerful allegorical reflections on the connections between past and present, time and space, and high culture and the hard scrabble world that sustains it.

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