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...never tell." Eco pauses, gives a melancholy smile: "Well, in this case, the girl in the book was really mine." Eco's popular success as a writer derives from his ability to convey complex ideas simply and to let those ideas and his learned - sometimes arcane - references support his plots, rather than weigh them down. Foucault's Pendulum, published in 1988, tells the story of three men in modern Italy whose intellectual games about the Knights Templar catapult them into danger. Along with The Name of the Rose, it helped to spawn an industry of history-infused thrillers - most recently...
...history of the oil industry teaches that money is sometimes only part of the plot. Power and geopolitical influence are oil's handmaidens. Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, says that as Chinese companies "try to get in on new deals, occasionally commercial rivalry will get caught up in larger foreign-policy issues." One example: the U.S. may eventually seek sanctions at the U.N. if Iran doesn't back off its suspected efforts to build atomic weapons. But Beijing, which sits on the Security Council, is completing a long-term $70 billion oil-and-gas deal with...
...last December the city Planning Board approved Harvard’s plans to build a total of 328 units of graduate student housing on the two sites in Riverside—the former Mahoney’s plot, and the area near Mather House...
Hill’s family resides adjacent to the plot of land on Memorial Drive...
...Allston will benefit from its location near the river and near a new student center. It must be contiguous, providing its residents the convivial environment enjoyed by current Quadlings, instead of strung out along the river. Unlike current HBS housing or the site between HBS and Western Ave., the plot of land now occupied by assorted athletic facilities is well suitedwithout major bulldozingfor the type of contiguous, student center-anchored arrangement we propose. It also presently represents underutilized land, with windowless athletic facilities and view-indifferent sports fields gracing prime riverfront real estate. Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise...