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This speech is one of the darkest and most unsettling in the Potter books to date. It creates a vivid physical embodiment of a painful mental state, which Muggles call depression, and it demonstrates Rowling's considerable emotional range. She can be both genuinely scary and consistently funny, adept at both broad slapstick and allusive puns and wordplay. She appeals to the peanut gallery with such items as Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, a wizard candy that means what it says on its package; it offers every flavor, ranging from chocolate and peppermint to liver and tripe and earwax...
...Unfortunately for Cisneros, he is not nearly as adept a liar as Clinton. Thanks to a few sloppy mistakes and a futile effort to maintain his dignity in a ridiculous situation, Cisneros was tripped up on the basic economics of his story: Did he pay his former mistress $10,000 or $60,000 a year? His inability to get his numbers straight catapulted him into the jaws of independent counsel David Barrett?s four-year, $10 million investigation. If Cisneros had been a more astute Clinton disciple, he would have known not to leave a paper trail of any kind...
...kids through Harvard. Or, in this case, Princeton, where a team of researchers have modified a single gene to produce smarter mice. According to a study to be published in Thursday's edition of Nature, mice whose brains were made to produce more of the protein NR2B became more adept at those traditional benchmarks of rodent intelligence, recognizing previously encountered Lego blocks and realizing when they are about to get an electric shock. The researchers essentially increased the ability of the mice to learn by strengthening the synaptic connections in their brains...
...brought home to me one of the cardinal rules of journalism--perhaps, not surprisingly, the only one I did not learn at The Crimson: the art of reliance and admitting ignorance. I say art because it takes practice to swallow your pride--something none of us Harvardians are too adept at--and to ask for help from a total stranger. But it is in these moments of helplessness that I have gained incredible insight into the Tour and its people...
...brought home to me one of the cardinal rules of journalism--perhaps, not surprisingly, the only one I did not learn at The Crimson: the art of reliance and admitting ignorance. I say art because it takes practice to swallow your pride--something none of us Harvardians are too adept at--and to ask for help from a total stranger. But it is in these moments of helplessness that I have gained incredible insight into the Tour and its people...