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...neighborhood in Cambridge, Mass., a few blocks from Harvard, on so-called Professors' Row, which real estate agents refer to as the smart street because such high-IQ figures as John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. have called it home. It was a long leap from there back to Manhattan at mid-century...
...with Davie Lerner, once a dancer with the New York City Ballet and long an amatory scholar of dance in all its forms, and watched "Isn't It a Lovely Day" from "Top Hat." Davie couldn't withhold his informed scorn about Rogers' performance: she can't make the leap, her gestures lack refinement, she's looking at her feet - she's looking at his feet! I confess the experience was deflating, like getting severe criticism of your girl friend from your best friend...
After seeing the box-office receipts for Spider-Man and reading about superheroes who have made the leap from the pages of comic books to the big screen [BLOCKBUSTER SUMMER, May 20], I wonder if comic-book readers will finally get some respect. Will the public thank us comic-book fans for keeping these characters in print and alive for decades? What would the film world be like if George Lucas and young directors like Kevin Smith hadn't been inspired by comics growing up? I am grateful to anyone who has ever written or drawn a comic book...
...Kosovo, and Pakistani and Indian hackers are doing it right now. Over a period of several years, U.S. investigators believe hackers - probably from Russia - tunneled into department of Defense sites and illegally downloaded large quantities of technical defense research, all unclassified, according to the Pentagon. The leap from this kind of sporadic hacking to virtual terrorism is only a matter of time, specialists believe. "After every terrorist attack, security is tightened up and improved," Chepchugov remarks. "But these days you don't need to get a truck bomb into, say, a chemical plant or crash a plane into...
...some ways, for some of us, it’s about losing people who hold some part of our history that no other person does—a romance, an intellectual discovery, a frightening leap into the deep end of a pool...