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...Road Hill House murder became a national obsession. It seemed to reveal some sick secret truth lurking in the hushed, upholstered heart of the Victorian household; Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, the first English detective novel, is based on it. The task of solving the crime fell to one Jonathan Whicher, the son of a gardener and one of the original eight London policemen selected to join a new, �lite unit of detectives headquartered at Scotland Yard. Kate Summerscale's THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER (Walker; 360 pages) is not just a dark, vicious true-crime story...
...armies of cheap workers, but that edge is getting dull. Labor costs have increased 50% in the past four years across southeastern provinces--an area of China sometimes called the "workshop of the world"--and a new labor law passed by Beijing will only add to the burden. Jonathan Anderson, an economist at UBS in Hong Kong, says factory owners in southern China believe the new law will drive labor costs an additional 10% to 25% higher. Among other provisions, the new law entitles laid-off workers to one month of severance pay for every year of employment...
Last weekend, Jonathan P. Hawley ’10, a history concentrator from California, competed for the $100,000 grand prize in the “Jeopardy!” 2008 College Championships held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The shows will air from...
...based on the well-known “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen—was disappointing. The song featured amusing lines such as “China Garden has only moo-shoo pork for me,” but the acting and singing skills of Jonathan K. Tam ’10 and Ilan J. Caplan ’10 drew the most laughter. Tam, in particular, stood out—not only because he was the sole Asian in a predominantly white, Jewish cast. His renditions of “Ten Copecks” had the audience...
...first position. Nguyen and Omodele-Lucien lost 8-6 at No. 3, and sophomore Michael Hayes and Chijoff-Evans won 8-6 at No. 2 to give the Crimson the doubles point.Harvard continues its march toward the Ivy League championship against Yale on Friday.—Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...