Q: Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, George Andreou was appointed as Director; the editor-in-chief is Susan Wallace Boehmer.

The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, in New York City, and in London, England. The press co-owns the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press.

Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.

The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.

HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the "Harvard Guide to American History". The John Harvard Library book series is published under the Belknap imprint.

Harvard University Press distributes the Loeb Classical Library and is the publisher of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and the Murty Classical Library of India.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the publish house called?
2. When was it created?
3. Is it apart of the school?
4. Are they known for fictional writings?
5. Do they own any other printing businesses?
6. Which one?
7. When was that created?
8. What notable author is printed by that company?
9. Does H UP belong to any national groups related to printing?
10. Which one?
11. Who is the editor in chief?
12. And the director?
13. Who was before him?
14. When did he retire?
15. Where is one of the headquarters located?
16. Any others?
17. Where?
18. Are there any international?
19. Where at?
A: 1. Harvard University Press
2. January 13, 1913
3. Yes
4. unknown
5. Yes
6. the Belknap Press
7. May 1954
8. John Harvard
9. Yes
10. the Association of American University Presses
11. Susan Wallace Boehmer.
12. George Andreou
13. William P. Sisler
14. 2017
15. Cambridge, Massachusetts
16. Yes
17. in New York City
18. Yes
19. London, England.
Q: (CNN) -- The rapper Common wants to take hip-hop in a new direction, he says, and he has an unsuspecting ally -- President-elect Barack Obama.

Common says he was looking for a new sound on his eighth album, "Universal Mind Control."

Obama "is going to change hip-hop for the better," predicted the rapper, whose eighth album, "Universal Mind Control" (G.O.O.D. Music/Geffen), hits shelves Tuesday.

"I really do believe we as hip-hop artists pick up what's going on in the world and try to reflect that," he told CNN, outlining his belief that mainstream as well as so-called "conscious" rappers -- the more socially aware -- will pick up on what he sees as the more optimistic prospects of an Obama presidency.

"I think hip-hop artists will have no choice but to talk about different things and more positive things, and try to bring a brighter side to that because, even before Barack, I think people had been tired of hearing the same thing," he said.

Likewise, "Universal Mind Control," with its hook-heavy, synthed-out tracks, represents a "broadening" of hip-hop's audience -- one that demands evolution rather than hackneyed revamps of old beats, rhythms and rhymes, Common said. Listen to clips from the album and Common's interview with CNN.com "

Not that Common, born Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., is altogether removed from the temptations of his hip-hop brethren.

He serves as a spokesman for Lincoln Navigator and purports on his new album to "rebel in YSL," a reference to designer Yves Saint Laurent. Money is also a weakness, as Common -- No. 14 on Forbes magazine's 2008 list of richest rappers -- regularly invokes the greenbacks he makes and spends. iReport.com: Talk Grammy Awards and more showbiz with Todd

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is an ally?
2. Is he the President?
3. Whose ally is it
4. What is Common
5. How many albums does he have
6. What is Common's actual name?
7. What is the title of his eighth album?
8. What news agency did he talk to?
9. Does the album demand something?
10. rather than what?
11. Who serves as a spokesperson?
12. For what?
13. what is YSL a reference to?
14. What is he
15. What is a weakness for Common?
A: 1. Barack Obama
2. no, President-elect
3. Common
4. rapper
5. unknown
6. Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr
7. Universal Mind Control
8. CNN.com
9. evolution
10. hackneyed revamps of old beats
11. Common
12. Lincoln Navigator
13. Yves Saint Laurent
14. designer
15. regularly invokes the greenbacks he makes and spends
Q: Olympic torch relay planned route Beijing, April 27--The Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will cover the greatest area and include the largest number of people. The plans were announced on Thursday night. The planned route would last 130 days and travel 137 000 km. First Nobel Prize winner to donate to Hope School Chinanews, Beijing, May 10--Professor Dannel Chee Tsui, in the USA, signed the agreement to donate 350 000yuan to his home town to build a Hope Primary School in China. Bill Gates receives Tsinghua honorary doctorate Beijing,April 20--Bill Gates, chairman of global IT giant Microsoft, received an honorary doctorate when he visited China's famous Tsinghua University on Thursday. Big Shaolin kung fu center to be built in Russia Chinanews, Beijing, April 27--China and Russia have signed a letter of intent ( )on the building of a Shaolin kung fu center in Russia. It will be the first of its kind in Russia,and also the biggest overseas kung fu center when it is completed.

Answer the following questions:
1. when is the Olympic torch relay planned ?
2. where ?
3. what will it cover ?
4. and incluse ?
5. when was it anounced ?
6. how many days will it last ?
7. and travel ?
8. what did bill gates receive ?
9. who signed a letter of intent ?
10. when ?
11. what country ?
12. will it be the first of its kind ?
A:
1. April 27
2. Beijing
3. greatest area
4. largest number of people
5. Thursday night
6. 130 days
7. 137 000 km.
8. Tsinghua honorary doctorate
9. China and Russia
10. April 27
11. Russia
12. yes