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...picture. You can see it too. Here’s how it goes.”The basic idea of RG theory is to study the variation in the importance of certain properties at a smaller or larger scale. For example, think of a large pile of tuna sandwiches. On a small scale, there are large differences in the consistency of this pile—the bread is different from the tuna, which is different from the tomato slices and the lettuce. However, on a larger scale, the pile is consistent, because each sandwich is the same. The pile...
...Richard Corliss: That's a fascinating premise for a good movie. And in Amores Perros the director and the writer found a suitable chain of stories to flesh out the premise. But if it doesn't work, all you're left with is a pile-up of implausible coincidences. In a word: Crash...
...leaving their books behind when they head out for lunch or a review session. But thanks to Michael I. Levin-Gesundheit ’08, a new library policy makes this less of an option. New signs posted throughout the library request that students not claim study space by piling up belongings or locking up laptops to library furniture. If a desk or carrel has been “reserved” but is unoccupied, students can remove the items and use the space. Levin-Gesundheit brought a complaint after an disagreement last reading period involving his girlfriend...
...before they walk the plank or sit down dramatically in the electric chair.It must be a daunting thing to realize you’re eating for the last time. I’d imagine you’d order a lot, err on the side of gluttony, then pile more on to your plate with gusto.A few weeks ago, I decided to find out. Every week during the dual racing season, each of the Harvard varsity lightweights must weigh in under 160 pounds, and all of them have pre-determined weight marks to hit each week.For four weeks in April...
...read? How, in a word, can he be snowed?Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading...