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...like Oasis (a "brilliant songwriting band"). "I'm a very boring person," he insists. He doesn't go to movies, he says (though he writes plenty of them; see box), and spends most of his spare time reading--most recently Janet Malcolm's biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. His chief recreational passion is trout fishing, which he does four or five times a year, usually in Hampshire, England, but with periodic ventures to more exotic climes like New Mexico and Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elitist, Moi? | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...yourself with a dire need for a jolt and/or change of scenery, try one of the spots we’ve listed below. We’ve ordered them in descending order, from most likely to inspire the next Great American Novel to most likely to inspire the next B+ “Justice” paper. 1. Café Algiers: The enormous hole in the ceiling could represent the shocking lack of awareness about political crises in North Africa, the absence of authenticity at the heart of the postcolonial text, or the (thankfully) missing, obnoxious economics concentrators. There...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Out of Lamont and Into Cafés | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...here for more than 30 years, if you count my time as a student,” Kennedy said. “And it’s been more than a home for me,” One of Kennedy’s colleagues, Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, said he believed Brown had made a good decision. “He’s a great scholar, very deeply read in social sciences and philosophy. He has considerable knowledge and work in the field of international relations,” Heymann said. “He?...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Top Law Professor Leaves for Brown | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...textbook “Molecular Biology of the Gene,” said in his molecular and cellular biology lecture course on Friday morning that he was personally outraged by Watson’s comments and did not believe them to be accurate. —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Watson's Media Ties Questioned | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...Almost from their founding, the Templars have been rumored a.) to still exist b.) to be impossibly rich, and c.) to guard the Holy Grail (the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper) and other Christian relics. Most of these stories are probably baseless, although for 150 years in the high Middle Ages, their order was incontestably one of the most powerful and creative military and economic forces in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican and the Knights Templar | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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