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...book actually follows. Though Steinberg gives his due to Gomer, the wayward wife of Hosea, the book takes place within the mind of Hosea himself. “The Prophet’s Wife” thus follows the prophet from a contemplative childhood, through his apprenticeship as a scribe, and into his troubled marriage and adulthood. Ironically, and most unfortunately, due to the book’s arrested development, the story never does get to Hosea’s actual prophetic career, aside from a brief glimpse afforded in the prologue...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Steinberg Renews Jewish Literary Tradition in ‘Prophet’s Wife’ | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...soul-crushing drudgery: inmates would be forced to trek endlessly on treadmills, pass their days turning purposeless cranks for thousands of revolutions at a time, or shuttle cannonballs back and forth in an activity known as the "shot drill." Among those subjected to forced labor in British prisons was scribe Oscar Wilde, who toiled for two years on charges of public indecency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hard Labor Really That Bad? | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...Watergate wasn't about a tip. It was about extensive reporting and getting information you can put in the paper.' BOB WOODWARD, the reporter who broke the Watergate story with fellow Washington Post scribe Carl Bernstein, saying Phelps' account "falls in the category of history, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...long-term growth, local residents called on Harvard to improve and lease its existing vacant property holdings in the neighborhood before making further purchases. Tensions further escalated in February when the University announced that it would slow construction of its much-heralded Allston Science Complex, prompting the Mayor to scribe a sharply-worded letter to Faust listing a set of community concerns that he expected would be addressed in the near future. Among his requests were an inventory of the University’s existing property holdings and their interim uses and a memorandum detailing conditions under which the University...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University To Freeze Property Purchases | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...other ship. Plus, the whole conceit is brilliant. It's like one of Philip K. Dick's epistemological passion plays: we watch the same scenes four times, almost word for word, and they mean something slightly different each time. (Watch TIME's video, "How To Be a Star Trek Scribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Back to the Final Frontier | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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