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...Science.”The new chair of the department, Anne Harrington, is one of the most popular professors in the College. She has a no-nonsense personality, her lectures are jam-packed with information, and she’s one of the sharpest teachers around. Be sure to shop her class, History of Science 177, “Stories Under the Skin: The Mind-Body Connection in Modern Medicine.”And this year, Darwin will make a triumphant return to Harvard: Mendelsohn used to teach a Darwin Core class, but professor Janet Browne, a new (female!) hire...
...Some of the sharpest lines go to such Guest stalwarts Michael McKean, as one of the film's screenwriters (who, when asked for changes, warns, "You don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, because then you'd have a wet, critically injured baby") and Fred Willard, as the airhead host of a TV infotainment show (complaining about foreign films, he says, "French movies with writing on the screen - I always think it's breaking news"). O'Hara has the meatiest, or hammiest, role as a has-been diva who by Oscar-nomination time has transformed...
...handsome, charming Brit with apossible corpse or two in his closet: this was the premise of Match Point, Woody Allen's sharpest film in ages and his first to crack $20 million at the domestic box office since Hannah and Her Sisters. Allen must have thought it was worth a replay, with Scarlett Johansson again serving as the love interest. Hence Scoop, which twists Match Point's rogue's-progress plot into a kind of detective story and its tone from scathing social drama into what must officially be labeled comedy...
...early to bet against these sites. The sharpest tool available to prosecutors against online gambling firms is the the U.S. Wire Act, which was conceived in the 1960s, long before the world went digital, and prohibits bets by wire communication. But since a U.S. appeals court ruled in 2002 that the act applied only to sports gambling, poker operators have denied that poker is a sport. (Those taking sports bets argue too that the Internet has changed the rules of the game and claim that the Wire Act is not applicable to such digital wagers...
...critical double play ball—the Crimson infield’s third crucial turn of the game. All told, Brunnig allowed eleven hits and eight runs (six earned) in his six-plus innings of work, striking out two and walking one. Although he did not have his sharpest stuff on the mound, Brunnig had his best-ever day at the plate, going 3-for-5 with two RBI and three runs scored...