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Here, 15 resident postdoc fellows inhabit plush residences, dine on fresh gourmet food at an antique table and amble across acres of well-groomed Italian gardens. (Five full-time gardeners, provided by Harvard, tend to the century-old landscape.) A staffer at the villa explains that visitors cannot see the library for fear of disturbing the scholars who are “hard at work,” somehow escaping the temptation to pluck lemons from the villa’s trees in the sunny Tuscan weather. The massive library collection at their disposal seems at least as tempting?...
...nose and a pipe sticking out of a mouth that never opens, even when speaking. Tardi works in the classic French bandes dessinee style (a close match to the work of Japanese comix master Osamu Tezuka, incidentally) with near-photographic reproductions of backgrounds that the flat, "cartoonish" characters inhabit. The "Tintin" mysteries by Herge are the most famous example of this style, which Tardi updates with the more cynical eye of a newer generation. The themes are darker and so are the images...
...administration isn’t to blame, then perhaps dissatisfaction is attributable to the bizarre overachievers that inhabit the university and promote the culture of complaining. Agbonyitor regularly listens to student complaints—even from students she doesn’t know. During exam period, she remembers talking to a friend in Loker Commons about an upcoming exam when an unknown student butted in. “She told me ‘I have two finals tomorrow and a paper due,’” Agbonyitor says. “She wanted her life to sound...
He’s a self-taught poet who loves to understand the world, put its rhythms to music—not a bad goal for us heady ones who inhabit college campuses for varying lengths of time...
...that plague our system. Instead of spending his entire career ensconced in a bureaucracy spending other people's money, he built a thriving business and career. Maybe what many voters want is someone who has actually had to live and survive in the real world the rest of us inhabit. Schwarzenegger can certainly do no worse than the current crop of morons. Brad Hale Cambria...