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Scott V. Edwards, a student of Mayr’s and his successor to the Agassiz professorship, remembered his first encounter with his mentor. It was prior to his own overseas research, when Mayr told him to “write, write, write.”
It's an old story: boy meets girl, girl turns out to be his mother, boy kills father. Sophocles told it 2,400 years ago, as have many authors since. But few have tackled the Oedipal tale with as much wit, verve and retail success as Japan's Haruki Murakami...
The novel, Murakami's 10th and his first big one since The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in 1997, features a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Tokyo home?shortly before his father's body is discovered in a pool of blood?and heads for distant Takamatsu. There...
Powell, by contrast, offered the President a harsh assessment of Iraq, which only reinforced his marginalization within the administration. In the January 12 edition of the Financial Times, administration insiders told of a recent encounter in which President Bush asked Powell for his view on the progress of the mission...
Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do...