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JILL McCORKLE. McCorkle, whose writing has been compared to the best of Truman Capote and Flannery O’Connor, will read from her new book Creatures of Habit, a collection of 12 interconnected short stories set in North Carolina. Taken together, the stories mimic the arc of a single person’s life. The title refers to two types of characters: animals with human qualities and humans with animal qualities, which McCorkle uses to expose subtle human failures and victories. Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books, 30 Brattle Street...
Then came the habit of warchalking--which began in London and spread around the globe--in which wardrivers would mark the presence of free networks with a strange hieroglyph--parentheses in reverse order--in chalk on the sidewalk for all to see. "The beauty of Wi-Fi is that it is so decentralized," says Anthony Townsend, an N.Y.U. professor who runs a network of 141 free access points called NYCwireless. Even Brilliant keeps his home Wi-Fi network open, and is happy for his Mill Valley, Calif., neighbors...
...into a bad habit back in the fall when it was still sore, keeping my weight way back and pushing off,” Klimkiewicz said. “I wasn’t getting any twist on it because I was taking my whole body out of the swing. I developed some muscle memory into that, so I watched myself on video to figure out what I was doing wrong...
...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...