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...book contains three “interludes”—short chapters that depart entirely from math. Robert explains their presence by drawing a parallel to a Math Circle class...
...part of HUDS’s home-recipe program, Ike H. Neggeson ’03-’05 saw his mother’s “taco pies” served for lunch last week in Leverett House. In a situation curiously parallel to an incident that occurred over 30 years ago, Alyssa Neggeson’s taco pies were first sampled in the back of a kitchen by a 16-year-old dishwasher. Brian M. Bringiz ’03, Heggeson’s roommate, skipped the meal. “I can eat Alyssa Neggeson?...
Volokh defended the legislation, drawing a parallel between making gun-manufacturer Glock liable when its gun is used in a murder and making Ford and Absolut vodka liable when its products are involved with drunk-driving deaths...
...novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and Robert Schenkkan adapt Greene’s book, while Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence) directs. The Quiet American screens...
...Chalabi and his supporters, however, were irked at being confined to an advisory role, and have continued to agitate for a provisional government under their control. His patrons in the Defense Department have reportedly been waging a parallel fight over the identity of the U.S. administrators-in-waiting. Senior Defense Department officials have reportedly nixed a number of State Department nominees. And the bureaucratic infighting is about a lot more than personalities or turf battles. It goes to the core of the war aims...