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Then Sturdy single-handedly took over the Harvard offense. In a 3:25 span, Sturdy scored 11 of Harvard's 13 points. When the dust settled, the Crimson trailed only...
...like the story of Icarus flying into the sun. It seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those things are easy to collect and they're not things that people mind you taking. The feather came from Freud's pillow when I borrowed it for The Maybe and I saw the feather sticking out of the pillow and I got terribly excited about the feather...
...only later that evening do you remember your long-neglected laundry, returning to find that some equally courteous person has dumped your wet clothes on that puddle of goo--what a jerk, couldn't he tell that it wasn't water?--and your dried clothes have returned to the dust-bunny lair from whence they came...
...surprise, after two hours, we were rather convinced. Gould, Dershowitz and Cox present something novel and exciting in the humdrum lives of us undergraduates: professors interested in examining issues anew--learning and thinking with a class--and not just repeating the same dry lectures they have to dust off each year and show up to give (e.g. Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
...effect on me. If anything, my interests became more and more esoteric as I progressed. For example, what was once a Social Anthropology special field became Celtic Languages and Literatures instead. I find myself crawling around the subterranean levels of Widener digging up Gaelic texts about to crumble to dust...