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...group of 50 Law School alumni went on a witch hunt of 17th century Harvard this Saturday, one week before Halloween...
...addict brother who "is alive today because of the criminal-justice system"; his widowed mother, a paragon of family values even as a single parent; his "heart-of-gold" grandfather, who taught him to hate segregation; his daughter, just for being alive; and his wife because it was their 17th anniversary. (Ronald Reagan knew how to do schmaltz; no one else should ever...
...missing are two from Mother's Milk: "Subway to Venus," with superb bass lines and a great horns section, and "Sexy Mexican Maid," an excellent example of the Peppers' ability to mix funk and thrash. Their absence especially hurts as one can only wonder why the group included the 17th song, the horrific and banal "Catholic School Girls Rule," and the last song "Johny Kick a Hole in the Sky," which is little more than mediocre...
...Galileo Galilei had built one of his own. With it he was able to confirm the heretical speculations of Copernicus, Kepler and Tycho Brahe that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our universe. The specific origins of the microscope are equally obscure. In the 17th century, Robert Hooke used it to describe accurately the anatomy of a flea and the design of a feather; Antonie de Leeuwenhoek discovered a world of wriggling organisms in a drop of water. The invention of logarithms and calculus led to more accurate clocks and optical instruments...
...civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...