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Sadly, his species is hardly one of a kind. Recall former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, at the forefront of the GOP’s fanatical call for the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. At the same time, of course, he was consorting with Callista Bisek, a Congressional aide 23 years his junior. And what of all the members of the Catholic clergy who have been exposed as child molesters since 2002? Their behavior surely jived spectacularly with their public espousal of the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s list...
Harvard students who care whether their faux-worn-in blazers have Italian, British, or American-cut shoulders are at the forefront of a trend: Dressing like a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel, a perennial Harvard pastime, is even more popular than ever here in Cambridge. Two august clothing vendors in Harvard Square—J. Press and The Andover Shop—have been supplying finals club members past and present with houndstooth and herringbone for decades. Denis E. Black, manager of J. Press, has worked in the Square for over thirty years and introduced generations of clueless freshmen...
...rescue. Instead of unwinding, as Scorsese's movies tend to, this one keeps coiling, a python of a plot that puts the what-happens-next? element of standard, superior storytelling at the forefront of the audience's mind. Viewers are alerted to trust no one; immediately or ultimately, five of the characters will reveal that they are not what they seem. The anticipation of trickery keeps a movie crowd on its toes. And because the story is so strong, Scorsese can elaborate on it without looking self-indulgent. One visual strategy: he plants X's everywhere, on the walls...
...Broad Institute has been analyzing the loss and amplification of parts of the genome, and it has been conducting sequencing experiments to identify key mutations in genes—springing the institute to the forefront of cancer research...
...Jupiter had marched in early on, we wouldn’t have a planet to live on,” Charbonneau said. With two planetary discoveries published within a week of each other, and a handful detected in previous years, the CfA is positioning itself at the forefront of the search for planets outside our solar system. According to Stephen S. Murray, CfA’s deputy director for science, the center is also involved in NASA’s Kepler Mission, which will send a telescope to search for habitable planets. TrES-2 is in the same region that...