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...Capturing both the intimacy and detachment of photography, Jones' breakthrough novel Sixty Lights (2004) might well have been subtitled I Am a Camera. A snapshot of 19th century Australian orphan Lucy Strange, who picks up the camera to make sense of her curious, off-kilter life in London and Bombay, the book limned the early history of photography while foreshadowing the advent of the moving image. Strange by name and nature, Sixty Lights risked alienating readers but ultimately dazzled with its precise image-making, from a gentleman's top hat set aflame in gaslight London, a dhoti-flapping Indian impaled...
...Quaero should prove revolutionary, to compete with the mammoth Internet companies it's best to own the domain Quaero.com. That name, however, already belongs to the North Carolina-based marketing and technology company Quaero Corporation. Patrick Dineen, its senior vice president of sales and marketing, says he is curious about his company's European namesake. He's not alone...
...person, Vincent is affable and articulate. She is neither an avenging feminist valkyrie nor a Coulteresque apologist for the patriarchy. She's more like a neutral anthropologist, genuinely curious about what on earth could possibly make men act the way they do. Vincent doesn't look especially masculine, although she is on the tall side--5 ft. 10 in. and lanky--and her voice is somewhat south of the alto range. (And there's the feet.) So she created an alter ego whom she named...
...curious circumstances in Currier have elicited calls for a uniform, secure online system for House elections. Currently, each House uses its own voting method—some use paper ballots, while others use electronic systems...
...anomaly of one part of the University selling a building to another part of the same university might seem curious to outside observers. But it makes some, if not perfect, sense amid Harvard’s decentralized financial structure, in which each school maintains its own endowment and sets its own budget...