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Mahon's star attraction is its fabulous natural harbor, three miles long and big enough to shelter a whole fleet of ships. The legendary British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, is said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so...
What on earth could have inspired Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning (not to mention New York Times best-selling) author, to begin her latest work with such a verbose, grammatically-clumsy sentence? An attempted strive for originality in the increasingly-formulaic world of American literature? A desire to jump...
At the same time that he terrorized his adversaries, he knew how to please, impress and charm the very interlocutors from whom he wanted support. Diplomats and journalists insist as much on his charm as they do on his temper tantrums. The savior admired by his own as he dragged...
DIED. DEREK H.R. BARTON, 79, 1969 Nobel laureate in chemistry who added a new dimension (the third) to chemical analysis and sired the field known as conformational analysis; in College Station, Texas.
This past week, Harvard joined more than 100 other colleges in holding an event that this campus has needed for quite some time: the Democracy Teach-Ins. This out-standing series of lectures, discussions, and debates has shed light on many of the crucial issues facing democracy today, and we...