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Back in 1979 author Thomas Harris was in Mississippi writing a novel about an intrepid detective named Will Graham who was on the trail of a particularly gruesome serial killer dubbed the Red Dragon. During long nocturnal walks through a cotton field, Harris came up with an ingeniously creepy notion: Graham would seek expert advice from a murderer he had captured years earlier--the baddest serial killer of them all, one Dr. Hannibal Lecter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hannibal Inc. | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...first Clay All Night party was held in September last year and, in official violation of campus party rules, really did last all night. Over 300 undergraduates came over the course of the evening, with the last intrepid, clay-encrusted partiers staying until 5 am. Selvage blames a racy flier (a relic of which still hangs in a case above past Clay All Night masterpieces) and extended hours for the overwhelming turnout. At a second Clay All Night event held during reading period last winter, the hours were reduced per Dean’s Office rules and a photo...

Author: By Angela M. Salvucci, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Go Ahead, Bake My Clay | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...novelist who can fashion an elegant grownup story as if it were a piece of soft aluminum. But the opportunity to plunge into the burdleburple of sheer fantasy is one reason he wrote Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax; 500 pages), the kind of book that features a motherly Sasquatch, some intrepid kids, numerous giants and "werefoxes," and several cliff-hanger baseball games on which the fate of the whole world just happens to hinge, plus a giant, prognosticating clam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kids Are Us! | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...Timor's central region, about 30 kilometers north of Maubisse, the 2,963-m-high peak can be reached by turning off the main road to Ainaro and negotiating a rough trail to the town of Hatu Buliko, built at its base. It's easy to feel like an intrepid explorer in this backcountry. Foreign faces are seldom seen and the villagers linger to watch you pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...gave me my first dose of Harvard lore. “There are three areas necessary for a happy, successful college life,” he said. “Academics, extracurricular activities, and a social life. At Harvard, you can only pick two.” As an intrepid, self-confident first year, I pooh-poohed his antiquated adage—surely there were some people who found a way to have it all. This is Harvard...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, | Title: Extracurriculars | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

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