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...music appears to express something," Igor Stravinsky once wrote, "this is an illusion and not a reality." Scientists at the Music Research Group at Britain's University of Leicester would beg to differ. They maintain that music conjures up images that can have a powerful, if subliminal, influence on our choice of products...
...such an exciting place to go to school is because it's located smack in the middle of a small city. There is always action going on somewhere in Harvard Square and a variety of good restaurants, movies, plays, bookstores etc. to keep you busy (although New Yorkers might beg to differ...
...with less than 10 students. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment faced this problem this fall. In History 10a, he secured funding for two additional sections to be offered on Fridays. Although the first sections all had well over 15 students, Professor Ozment literally had to beg students--he offered gourmet cupcakes as bribes--to switch into the Friday sections...
...base, men who ain't supposed to cry unless their team has won the Super Bowl, if at all. But here they are, a more than slightly disconcerting sight, middle-age guys sobbing and hugging and professing love for one another. They admit to having broken promises, they beg forgiveness--for insensitivity, for infidelity, for abandoning their children, for racial hatred, for sins as petty as reading pornography to transgressions as heinous as abusing their wives--and they swear to be Promise Keepers--with the help of the Big Guy. As one of their hymns goes, "Oh victory in Jesus...
...neighbor, who became her "white hyacinth for the soul." The two women recognized that, as Carson wrote, "our brand of 'craziness' would be a little hard for anyone but us to understand." Indeed, as Carson's cancer intensified, Freeman was sufficiently worried about the "implication" of their letters to beg Carson to destroy their correspondence...