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Sherlock Holmes drew out a fine case, puffing leisurely at his calabash while pondering each clue until he deduced the culprit. Detecting, in the quintessential sleuth's day, required more than an agile mind; it took time. Of course, times change. Two of fiction's newest detectives have the necessary brainpower: they're young (in their 30s) African-American professionals (a professor and a doctor). These women, however, are so upwardly mobile that they can barely pencil murder into their crammed calendars...
...blame the good folks at HSTO for our rates, which are marginally higher than the best deals available. The real culprit is MCI, Harvard's long-distance provider. Frankly, the long-distance industry has profited handsomely from years of market control, and the high rates charged by the Big Three demonstrate that...
...spanning the last four hundred years. In a nutshell, they hated it: Ben Jonson called it "a mouldy tale" from the get-go, when it had barely had time to go stale. We're not even sure who wrote the play's first half. Current critical consensus suggests the culprit was a guy named George, who subsequently tried to sell the publication rights illegally, and when thwarted, wrote a popular "novelization." Some things haven't changed much in four hundred years...
With its ever increasing penchant for mawkish soap opera and garish costuming (and no one is a bigger culprit here than Kulik), figure skating has become camp spectacle. Perhaps as a corrective, the judges of the men's competition sent the message that skating is indeed still an earnest sport where fierce athleticism matters. In other words, yes, the much discussed quadruple jump counts. Of the top medal contenders, only two skaters, Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, also a Russian, attempted one, and only Kulik landed his: a perfectly executed quadruple toe loop...
...supposed to an innocuous sit-down with reporters in the Map Room. But Hillary Clinton needed only a little prodding Wednesday to finger yet another culprit in her husband's troubles: the Internet...