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...What type of tree would you be if that sort of thing happened in real life: An oak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: HUPD: Harvard's in-house police fight parasites and make friends. | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...What type of tree would you be if that sort of thing happened in real life: An oak because it's so strong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: HUPD: Harvard's in-house police fight parasites and make friends. | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...rumors abound about the credibility of GG's sources. "Damnit Guy, you're just making all that shit up," claimed Crimson lawyer and libel expert Ronald K. Oak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Gossip Guy! | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...What you have to understand is that, for landscape architects, Dumbarton Oaks is a very sacred place--a sacred landscape," explains Clarissa Rowe, a Boston architect and president of Historic Massachusetts Inc., who grew up playing in Dumbarton Oak's Farrand gardens...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Construction May Endanger Dumbarton Oaks Gardens | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

Thoreau orders Wild Fruits as a botanist might, collecting his notes on each plant in the order in which it blooms. He records the dates of his sightings and the measurements he has made: "September 24, 1859. The common shrub oak is apparently the most fertile of our oaks. I count two hundred sixty-six acorns on a branch just two feet long." But he has trouble keeping poetry out of his descriptions: "August 23, 1858. Abundantly shedding its downy seeds, wands of white and pink." And sometimes the objective mask slips completely: "July 30, 1860. Beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unregarded Berries | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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