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...sternest critic. If I can do it to myself, I’ll certainly share it with the rest of the world!”‘GLORY IN THE DARK’Yet Simon stands even more steadfastly by his proudest moments. He still remembers a fuse blowing just before he was about to deliver a monologue during a performance at the Brattle Theatre during his undergrad days—and the theater fell pitch black. In the incipient chaos, Simon calmly continued with his lines, and not a single audience member moved. “My moment...
...West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...
...optoelectronic” devices, which use light instead of electricity to do computations. Agarwal, working with Professors David G. Grier ’84 at New York University and Hyman Professor of Chemistry Charles M. Lieber at Harvard, among others, found a way to cut, rotate, and fuse hundreds of nanowires in precise patterns. Agarwal’s discovery uses a mechanism called the Holographic Optical Trap, or HOT, invented by Grier’s group in 1997. According to Grier, a HOT “use[s] forces exerted by light to grab and move microscopic objects...
...which was offered last spring. It was specifically geared towards scientifically minded individuals, to pursue a specific academic topic and convey the idea so that anyone, whether within or outside of the sciences, could comprehend this subject matter. It is exciting to think that we are increasingly able to fuse multiple disciplines in order to understand the world around...
...wasn’t because of cooking emergencies as I tried to feed myself without the assistance of Harvard University Dining Services, nor did I panic because I didn’t know how to change a fuse. And while it’s true that all of our conversations have at some point turned to the Red Sox, I haven’t been calling my parents simply because I missed that “Dirty Water” and needed a connection to home...