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After years of attention to developing the Core Curriculum and otherwise examining the academic needs of undergraduates, the Faculty has taken notice of some problems peculiar to the lives of those somewhat more experienced educational consumers--graduate students...
...towering Mauna Kea, a 13,800-ft. extinct volcano in Hawaii, is a peculiar mix of the exotic. Gnarled koa trees twist up from its tropical slopes, where the endangered palila bird, a tiny yellow honey creeper, crushes rock-hard mamane seeds with its beak. But up on top, science has taken over. Because the exceptionally dry and stable atmosphere over Mauna Kea makes the site among the world's best spots for star gazing, six telescopes have been built on the volcano's crest, and two more are under construction...
...scattered in England, France and the U.S. Although his research was thorough enough to produce a 700-odd item bibliography, Randall's greatest skill is portraiture. In A Little Revenge, both Franklins are vital, believable figures: Benjamin, "puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin." Through his 20s, the younger Franklin is an almost biblical...
...there is no lack of American painters who confuse eloquence with elephantiasis, the size of Golub's figures seems justified and necessary. Only by monumentalizing their documentary content could he give it the kind of fixity and silence it needed, and only that way could he achieve his peculiar balance between the sacrificial and the banal and so get rid of the sour whiff of pornography that attends images of extreme violence...
...back; lesser fry do not dare. (Andrei Gromyko doesn't have to face the problem at all.) No American politician could get away with an Englishman's jolly "I say, would you mind terribly if I ducked that?" He is both "guest" and adversary, which explains the peculiar studio atmosphere of wary cordiality: neither side wants to appear either a patsy or the heavy...