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...novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's clear that Brennan explained himself in the first few sentences he spoke and that Dell'Appa isn't the only smart, ruthless member of his own family. The novel is mannered and the narration moves crabwise, and some readers may bail out. The rest of us may agree that this...
Harvard's sole champions were the doubles combination of Cyndi Austrian and Kathy Vigna (the Crimson's number-one singles player). The tandem defeated William & Mary's Kirsten Chaister and Namratha Appa Rao, 6-1, 6-4, in the C flight final...
...wind, the light flashing across their lab floor should be slowed by 18.5 miles per second. Twelve hours later, the apparatus would be moving in the direction opposite to the earth's orbital motion, and light's speed should have been increased by the same amount. The appa ratus was crude by modern standards, but theoretically sensitive enough to detect this degree of change. No such effect was found. Light seemed to move at the same speed in all directions, regardless of the ether wind. So scientists had to abandon the concept of the luminiferous ether. Light...