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...their lives and adventures, thanks to the intercessions of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Richardson. As readers grew more sophisticated, authors in England and the U.S. felt less obliged to offer fiction in the guise of fact. But the tradition of the imaginary autobiography has continued to attract notable writers from Dickens and Twain to Salinger and Bellow. In the right hands, the old trick of the sham document can still inspire belief and wonder. The Tree of Life comes from the right hands...
This museum houses one of Harvard's most famous attractions, the glass flowers collection. The 7880 species represented in 784 life-sized models and 3218 enlarged flowers attract more than 100,000 visitors every year. A survey of the guest register for one week shows visitors from Israel, Australia, England, Colombia, and Hawaii...
Carol Robinson of the advertising firm Agnew, Carter, and McCarthy, which promotes the circus's Boston shows, said that the animals parade every year simply to get from the train to the arena. This year, however, the firm decided to publicize the parade to attract a larger crowd...
While the quality of instruction has not been affected, Porte said the poor office have made it harder to attract new faculty with such poor offices. Harvard is "known throughout the country for the almost insoluble problem," Green said...
Brugman countered objections that the new alien policies would attract "terrorists and criminals" to Massachusetts. "We're talking about [the aliens'] welfare, not protecting terrorists," he said. "I think it's a very positive move on the part of the governor...