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...didn't fit the Theme, but Williamson was exactly what Grisham needed as a writer, for exactly that reason. His thrillers are gleaming, perfectly calibrated machines, but books don't look right unless they have a few rough, unfinished patches. They cease to resemble reality, which is nothing if not rough around the edges. The Innocent Man may not handle like The Street Lawyer. It may never be a movie starring Tom Cruise. But it is undeniably real...
With online filing deadlines and mandatory meetings and seemingly endless amounts of schmoozing events, the process can be a time crunch for already too-busy seniors. “It’s a rough experience,” says Wojtek Kubik ’07, an economics concentrator in Quincy House. “It’s ridiculously hectic when you’re trying to handle classes—essentially it’s like taking another two classes...
Even given the glut of jobs, the ease of applying, and the purported $10,000 “golden hello” signing bonus at the banks, Harvard grads are moving to rough neighborhoods and teaching in under-resourced classrooms in record numbers...
Still, the corners of Horn’s novel are nailed down solidly enough to make up for any rough edges. “The World to Come,” as it reaches for the heavens, may not soar toward profundity with quite the ease that many of its loquacious characters do; but it is Horn’s thoughtfully arranged, vibrantly written examination of people in their private times of crisis that makes her book memorable...
...part on the accuracy of fossil dating and the reliability of using genetic variation as a clock. Both methods currently carry big margins of error. But the more primate genomes that geneticists can lay side by side, the more questions they will be able to answer. "We have rough sequences for humans, orangutans, chimps, macaques," says Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute and a leader of the research team that decoded the chimpanzee genome. "But we don't have the entire gorilla genome yet. Lemurs are coming along, and so are gibbons...