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...Auguste Dupin, an amateur investigator who solved crimes through an extraordinary talent for analytic thinking. The stories were not terribly popular in the United States; indeed, Poe himself was not very popular in the United States (as his subsequent relegation to the boys books bin in local libraries will attest). But in Europe Poe's reputation was up there with the best, and fifty years later, his stories would influence another European, Arthur Conan Doyle, as he tried his hand in the amateur detective mode. When, in 1887, A Study in Scarlet introduced Sherlock Holmes, a whole...
Maxwell summed up: "It was like a pendulum. We thrashed them a couple of times, but they came back each time. We just played hard and things finally kept falling our way." As any Bostonian of a certain age can attest, that has always been the Celtic way. -B.J. Phillips Reported by Jamie Murphy/Houston
...incessant phone calls and the fact that she received the "Spirit of Kirkland House" award at the senior banquet attest to Ippolito's popularity in the House, but she insists that her actual residence is Charlie's Kitchen...
Mental lapses bring us to the third and final item on the list--attitude. If there had been any doubts beforehand, yesterday's 100 or so spectators can attest to the lax-women's enthusiasm. Cheers from the offense, defense and the bench met goals one through...
Such feelings make it possible to survive a week like the last one. They attest to the normalities of our lives, and suggest that in the long run there is a gentleness and decency that pre vails over the berserk flashes and the threats of sudden death...