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...powerful flow of really good ideas? Doesn't help; we don't know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over the unicorn's head, in his new novel, Enigma (Random House; 320 pages; $23). The results are worthy and believable, if not luminous...
...military folk, who seem over the ages to have had little more to do than embroider their vocabulary with ever newer inventions. Ask any soldier to count the entries, and he will say there are three hundred and sixty-f---ing-five of them. Were it not for our brave fighting men, this book would be a booklet...
Hoping to protect bike riders who brave the crowded Cambridge streets and sidewalks, the Harvard Police released a new set of bike safety regulations this week...
...balked over an unresolved hitch minutes before the document was due to be signed, forcing Clinton to closet himself with both leaders in his private dining room and urge them to settle their differences. But in the end the script itself, which Arafat hailed as "the peace of the brave," was enough to steal the show...
This is the moment we've all been waiting for. At long last, change is in the offing for the Core. But it will take six brave faculty members and two brave students to effect the radical reform the Core needs...