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...specialist in evolutionary biology, Berry currently serves as the undergraduate concentration advisor for the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department. When the popular lecturer and noted scientist agreed to give FM a brief tour of the home he shares with his wife Naomi E. Pierce, a professor of biology in OEB, and their two daughters, he greeted FM first in his office at the Biological Labs, and after fetching his bike, led the five-minute walk to his house on Sacramento Street through the damp Cambridge afternoon that he affectionately calls the “English summer...
...After a brief conversation, the three pack up the tent and head back to their dorms...
...effort to write more neatly. As he describes this boy, Paterson derives a broader conclusion about humanity from the image: “the whole man must be his own brother / for no man is himself alone.” It would be easy to imagine this brief poem as a sort of family maxim delivered from generation to generation...
...movie opens with the death of Aaron’s (Chris Rock) father, and a eulogy service which, under normal circumstances, would be a rather somber and brief affair. Events, however, are turned on their ear from the very beginning of the film. Initially, the undertaker confuses Aaron’s father for another and gives the family the wrong body...
...Striking a fantastic, wistful, and yet powerful tone, Wainwright here describes a kind of loss that avoids the lure of saccharine self-pity. His imagery, of an earth “lumbering on” and of galactic dreams, is sweet and clear without being cloying. After a brief and discordant piano part, Wainwright ends the song by belting, “I truly loved / Which is harder to do, yes it’s harder to do / Yes it’s harder, harder, harder, to do / Than to dream of.” The repetition of the word...