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Characters? Oh, there are lots of characters. Easily more than 100 flit in and out of the madly proliferating plotlines. And those plots? In a novel that begins at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and concludes in the aftermath of World War I, one that passes through Colorado, Venice, London, Vienna, Mexico, central Asia, the upper atmosphere and the fourth dimension, there are frequent stretches where a new plot seems to start every paragraph or two. The book opens with the Chums of Chance, a quarrelsome brotherhood of operatives that pops up throughout the novel, circumnavigating the globe...
Picture your favorite old, black and white horror movie: the innocent young girl is apprehensively peering around the corner or creeping up the creaky staircase; shadows flit across the wall; a door slams shut; just when you least expect it, Dracula jumps out and grabs our terrified heroine, complete with a big, climactic organ swell! Now would the scene have been at all frightening without those cacophonous organ notes? Certainly not. Maybe the Harvard Organ Society didn’t have such dramatic ideas behind their midnight Halloween concert, but nine performers explored the spookier side of the instrument late...
...loading bay; now the vehicles move through a bright, gleaming shop floor--with American flags draped from the ceiling--in an assembly-line method, complete with a horn that blares every 23 min. to signal a move to a new station. Workers called waterspiders (named for the bugs that flit across the top of ponds) scurry back and forth to fetch tools and equipment for higher-skilled mechanics, who stay close to the humvees. Evans tracks the slightest delays. When an employee missed work for a family emergency last December and slowed the entire line, Evans realized that...
...They flit across our TV screens, these appalling images of devastation. We choke up a bit, perhaps send a donation to an appropriate charity, then go back to our lives. Because New Orleans is in America, and because it became a political embarrassment as well as a human disaster, Katrina got more sustained attention. But what of other natural catastrophes, like the tsunami in Indonesia? Or the Iranian city of Bam, which, on Dec. 26, 2003 - exactly a year before the Indonesian tsunami - was leveled by an earthquake. Of the 100,000 inhabitants, 30,000 died. The rest were left...
...impacts other valuable programs such as study abroad and senior thesis tutorials. And open admission to these tutorials will cause class sizes to bloat, destroying the intimacy and attention that tutorials are meant to provide. None of these are tradeoffs warranted by saddling students with an extra semester to flit about, lost in an unstructured, pre-concentration Harvard curriculum. In the spirit of combating some of these problems, the Faculty also passed a provision requiring first semester sophomores to meet with departmental advisors. We hope the Faculty takes an extra step in this direction and require freshmen to declare...