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...Roger C. Batt ’10, a History of Art and Architecture and Neurobiology joint concentrator, experienced a similar challenge in trying to identify a thesis topic that would fit with both his fields of interests...
Shutter Island, the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), ransacked nearly 2,500 years of murder-mystery tradition - from Oedipus Rex to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - and was deeply indebted to such early David Fincher films as The Game and Fight Club. The plot, set in the 1950s, is a festival of conspiracies involving Nazis, Soviets, lobotomizers, the CIA and LSD, plus some very crafty lunatics and an oddly convenient hurricane. Packed with word and number puzzles, like a Da Vinci Code with fewer chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised...
...barriers: India's Sachin Tendulkar scored a double-hundred against South Africa in a one-day match on Feb. 24, 2010. For the 1.5 billion people who follow cricket - making it, by some reckoning, the world's second most popular sport after soccer - it was a moment to match Roger Bannister's 4-min. mile...
...Domestic Violence”)—“kind of the godfather of cinéma vérité,” in the words of Horovitz—and Errol Morris (“The Fog of War”), compared by critic Roger Ebert to Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini. The high concentration of filmmakers in the area is due in part to the number of colleges and universities, many with strong film programs, located in the Boston area...
Call it the Tiger Woods-Roger Federer debate, Winter Olympics-style. On Wednesday, the two most heavily hyped Americans in the Vancouver Olympic Games, skier Lindsey Vonn and half-pipe snowboarder Shaun White, lived up to the billing and dominated their respective events, winning two golds. Like Woods in golf and Federer in tennis, they're both transcendent talents who have set the standards of greatness in their sports. One of the more popular arguments among sports fans is the question of whose accomplishment is more impressive, Woods' 14 major golf titles or Federer's record 16 Grand Slams. What...