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Anyone who scanned the headlines last week might be excused for thinking a long-feared biological Rubicon had been crossed. Newspapers across the country, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times, put the story on the front page, and U.S. News & World Report splashed it on the cover, proclaiming THE FIRST HUMAN CLONE in big, bold type...
...ominous zero into a new decade-how terribly old I had become, and how little I had accomplished. Twenty already! I'd done nothing. On further reflection, I thought that entering my twenties meant I had begun something irrevocably serious at last-gone through a sea-change, crossed a Rubicon. All birthdays with zeroes will tend to make you feel that way. Wait til you get a load of sixty...
...five years since the three brothers first burst on the scene, and that has brought adolescence. Even so, there was something bizarre about seeing the guy who was the cute young singer in the group chatting up a girl in her late teens. It was as though a Rubicon had been crossed. The End of the Innocence! The middle Hanson brother is now old enough to date...
...than the image of the woman stilled in her movement towards it. If the woman holds the key to the work, we may require more of her identity: does she represent a kind of social autobiography of the artist? The motion of the actor is already described: "Crossing the Rubicon" refers to Caesar's crossing of the small stream in Italy, beginning the war with Pompey. His words, "alea jacta est" or "the die is cast," have come to describe a point of no return. Lemieux's title describes the motion of a decisive step, at the beginning of some...
...Harvard Crimson: How did you begin work on "Crossing the Rubicon...