Word: gracefulness
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...probably the most easy-to-understand piece ever to grace the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine. There in Thursday's edition of the venerated periodical, alongside impenetrable articles on various scleroses and neuroses, was a full-page confession by the publication's editorial staff. The crime: The Journal violated its own conflict of interest rules by accepting drug studies by researchers whose employers received funding from some of the drug companies whose products were being evaluated. While this may not equate with traditional notions of payola - no member of the NEJ staff received any money from...
...course, there's a reason Hitchcock didn't use "Window Overlooking the Path Around Lowell House" instead of the movie's New York tenement. Here there are no suspicious Aryan costume-jewelry salesmen, few wives, no wardrobe like Grace Kelly's, no Yorkshire terriers and no soundtrack to speak...
...principle itself translates. At some imperceptible point in the middle of the movie, Jimmy Stewart's snooping shifts from being the forgivable voyeurism of a bored man waist-deep in plaster to the important surveillance of a concerned citizen. As soon as he and Grace Kelly convince themselves they've seen a murder, scruples are thrown to the wind...
...experience. The smell of popcorn, the crush of bodies, the communal sense of anticipation and the space itself all add to the story of the entertainment. Spaces, architectural enclosures, shape our relation to an event. You can pray at home. But a church, mosque or synagogue gives prayer scale, grace and a heightened sense of spirituality because of the aura of sacred ritual deemed appropriate within the religious house. People cling to ritual. It gives structure and comfort to chaos. It creates a sense...
However, Harvard crawled away with losses to both St. Lawrence and Clarkson, 4-6 and 2-5 respectively, and that weekend marked a fall from grace for Harvard, who has not returned to the top of the standings since...