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Assistant Professor of Economics Veronica Chase joins an illustrious league of fictional Harvard professors who leave their ivory tower perches to solve a murder mystery. The most famous protagonist in the genre is no doubt Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon, hero of Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Professor Solves Princeton Murder | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

Author Pamela A. Thomas-Graham ’85, whose day job is chief executive officer of CNBC, first introduced readers to Chase in A Darker Shade of Crimson (1998), and she brought Nikki back for an encore performance in Blue Blood (1999). In Thomas-Graham’s latest novel, Orange Crushed, (released next month) an older, wiser Nikki leaves her Cambridge stomping ground to investigate a possible murder at Princeton University. The setting offers a perfect opportunity for Thomas-Graham to contrast her alma mater’s virtues with the New Jersey safety school?...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Professor Solves Princeton Murder | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

Jeffrey Liss had finished making his selections on Maryland's Democratic-primary ballot and strolled out of the polling place at Chevy Chase Elementary School on the morning of March 2, Super Tuesday. On the sidewalk, he spied a campaign poster for Senator Barbara Mikulski, who is running for her fourth term. Funny, he thought, he didn't remember voting in the Senate race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: The Vexations Of Voting Machines | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...carb foods are migrating from speciality stores to grocery shelves alongside their higher-carb brethren as food manufacturers play catch-up in the great diet chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skinny On Low Carbs | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...told London police he had been "mugged" in a park while walking his dog at 4:30 a.m. Spacey later confessed that the culprit was a con man who had tricked him into handing over his cell phone. The bump on his head? Self-inflicted, as the thespian gave chase, tripped over his dog and fell. Spacey later jokingly implied that David Beckham had bribed him to do something stupid enough to move the soccer star off the front pages of the British tabs. O.K., now that we believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lies of David Gale | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

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