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...Krupnik was not simply a professor —he was also a writer, a profession Lowry could obviously portray accurately. Mr. Krupnik would always carry around a notebook with him to record what he called “the human scene.” His habit was one that was based on Lowry’s own experience. “I do usually write things down,” Lowry says, “and many of those observations find their ways into books sometimes years later...
...lack of explanation is particularly saddening over a dean so well-liked by students. Always amusingly blunt, I very much appreciated Dean Lewis’ habit of responding to my many Crimson-related e-mails (“Who’s in charge of ______?”) within 20 minutes, regardless of the hour in his 18-hour day. I am sure that the old and new Harvard regimes had an ugly clash behind closed doors (and thank you Dean Lewis for keeping it behind closed doors, unlike the shenanigans of a former professor soon to appear...
This kind of equanimity and focus are not what Williams is famous for in her personal life. As a child she spent time in Chile and Mexico, and as an adult she has a habit of changing locations--and lovers--every few years. (The bass-player thing is real: Richard Price, her former bassist, was the inspiration for much of 2001's Essence and several songs on World.) Happiness hasn't always been easy to come by, and her fans make such a fuss over her in part because they think she's too devoted to her work to have...
...joined, umbilical-like, to each other and the rest of the world. So we zoom up Kurdistan's mountain roads, messaging each other from our cars - no more stopping to assemble, swivel around and curse a satellite phone bigger than a laptop whose lid-cum-antenna have an irritating habit of dropping on your fingers...
Smoking seems to bring out the inner statistician in people. Sure, smokers know their habit can lead to lung cancer, but what are the odds it actually will? How does smoking a pack a day for 20 years compare in risk with smoking two packs daily for 40 years? And if you quit, how much do your odds improve? The results of a study published last week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute offer smokers some help--at least with the math. The tricky part is knowing what to do with the answer...