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...heroine of Janet Malcolm's new journalistic essay, The Crime of Sheila McGough, the book has a fascinating mystery at its heart: the search for truth in the shadows of the legal system. Malcolm is an excellent and witty tour guide through this material, some of the densest thickets of bureaucratic confusion this side of Kafka. After all, McGough's client was, in Malcolm's evocative retelling, a veritable genius at the art of the con: layering stories upon stories and constantly filing equally believable, contradictory documents in legal offices across the country. Without Malcolm's intelligent and clear prose...
City Councilor Kathleen L. Born highlightedthis fact in an early Knafel discussion, pointingout Cambridge is the sixth densest city in thenation, and has less open space than even New YorkCity...
Springfield boasts a teeming gallery of low- and medium-lifes--surely the densest, funniest supporting cast since the '40s farces of Preston Sturges. The church, school and pub are places of refuge and anxiety. But home, 742 North Evergreen Terrace, is where the show's heart is, where everyone's despair is muted by familial love. Homer (whom the writers hold in a sort of amazed contempt) bumbles into some egregious fix. Marge fusses and copes. Lisa sublimates her rancor by playing her sax. And Bart is...Bart...
City Councillor Kathleen L. Born pointed out Cambridge is the sixth densest city in the nation, and has less open space than even New York City...
...barest slivers of tissue, which they examine under high-power microscopes. What they are looking for is the freckling of brownish plaques and blackish tangles that are the telltale marks of Alzheimer's. While such blemishes may show up in virtually any area of the brain, they are usually densest in the hippocampus, the seahorse-shaped region that is critical to memory...