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...Shape of the Brief
...Harvard brief also cites data from a 1998 book defending affirmative action in college admissions—The Shape of the River, authored by Bok and former Princeton President William G. Bowen—to prove what they consider the success of the Bakke decision...
...don’t have our game shape right now,” Floerchinger said. “We had a lot of momentary lapses that other teams took advantage...
...there remained the problem of how to fit the bases together. Watson kept trying to do it by pairing like with like--an A attached to one backbone linked to an A on the other. Chemically, it would work. The bases were different enough in size and shape, though, that this scheme led to either a gap between bases or misshapen backbones. Worse yet, when Watson happened to show his idea to Jerry Donohue, an American crystallographer doing a stint at the Cavendish, Donohue informed him that the bases came in more than one chemical form. Watson was using...
...unbearably sad, but together they carry the full, devastating force of a lifetime of intermingled joy and pain. "Isn't this how life turns out, more often than not?" Mountstuart writes. "It refuses to conform to your needs--the narrative needs that you feel are essential to give rough shape to your time on this earth." Mountstuart struggles heroically to give his life this rough shape. He never quite does so. That's his failure as a person--but Boyd's triumph as an artist. --By Lev Grossman