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...Tuesday, Palfrey took the Olympic Torch from Canadian athlete Chris Avelar and jogged 300 yards before hip-bumping and passing the flame to Speed Skating Canada's Hall of Fame inductee Debra Fisher four minutes later. Palfrey joins over 100 torchbearers transporting the torch through several cities in Alberta on Tuesday's leg of the relay...
Like Lewis Carroll, who might have imagined he would be remembered for his book on mathematics rather than the one he wrote for Alice, David Levine assumed that his claim to fame would rest on his watercolors. In an earlier age it would have. His paintings were on par with the very best of the previous century, including works by John Constable and Winslow Homer. But when he died on Dec. 29 at age 83, it was as a caricaturist that he was remembered and celebrated...
Also, The Yale Daily News’s blog reports that Harold Bloom, the famous academic and Shakespeare scholar of The Western Canon fame, has sadly canceled his two seminars this semester due to a severe illness and hospitalization since December...