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...Ever since the construction of a large greenhouse I have been subjected to a relentless stream of noise coming from the fans at the biology labs," Ms. Walter wrote in a letter to Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall last November. "The level of nighttime noise, as measured by both the City of Cambridge and by Harvard's private acoustical contractor, exceeds legal limits...
Above all, he is a relentless hunter of disease genes. Finding a gene embedded in long, nearly featureless spirals of DNA, he likes to observe, is harder than locating the proverbial needle in a haystack. "At least a needle looks different from a haystack," he says, "but a gene is just another piece of DNA." His love for lab work won't let Collins become merely a bureaucrat. He has already established his own research center at the National Institutes of Health so he and colleagues can continue their search for errant genes...
...gossip that has lately dropped on Freud's closely guarded personal life -- that all the models are people with some specific relation to the artist as friends, lovers, daughters. But the nature of that relationship doesn't appear in the painting, and everyone is treated with the same relentless scrutiny of physical fact, so that a chin or an elbow acquires the same intensity, as painting, as a breast or a pubic mound. The results have much to do with modeling -- physical manipulation, as though the body were being reconstructed in the medium of paint, crowded with bumps and hollows...
...argue with Elders that shootings in the nation's cities and suburbs would diminish if cocaine were legalized." We all know that most of the violence results from the prohibition on drugs, which generates a lucrative illegal business. Drug dealers kill each other and innocent victims in the relentless pursuit of increased market share...
...result of this relentless passion is not perfect. What enterprise of this scope and intensity possibly could be? In concentrating on the scope of their suffering, the film has lost a certain particularity among the victims. It lacks highly individual characters who would embody and dramatize their suffering. Something of Schindler himself has also been lost in the transition to the screen. Keneally conceived him as a man who admired his own cleverness and may have derived the same sardonic pleasure from taking Jews away from the Nazis as he did from taking money away from them in exchange...