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...bring too many books to read "just for fun." Two or three may give a break from Kant, but more than that will just take up shelf space and gather dust. You will hardly ever have time to read for fun, and even if you did, there are millions of books in Widener, Lamont, Pusey...
...chayote from Mexico, an exotic rarity in 16th century Spain). Your eye can't wallow in such spareness, as it can in the abundance of Flemish still life. It sees the vegetable as Idea, a reading promoted by the fact that Cotan deliberately arranged the objects on strings and shelf to form a hyperbolic curve. The melon opens its delicious interior to you, but its geometric frame cancels the idea of eating it. It's food for thought...
...lost and found. But where to begin? I discovered that the lost and found system at Harvard can be a more complicated network than the library system. In addition to the Harvard Police station's L&F, most University offices, libraries and buildings have a lost and found department, shelf or box of their...
...because Fernald had not put his weight onthe floor of the stacks, the electronic devicecontrolling the movement of the stacks did notregister his presence, and the stack closed onhim, trapping his left arm between the chair andthe shelf, according to Director of HarvardCollege Library Security and Public Safety LouisH. Derby...
...life, it's unlikely a movie could ever be made of the Brando family saga, because it's too complex and twisted for any screenwriter to handle. Where to start? In Brando's recent autobiography, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, he described his mother as "an off-the-shelf drunk" and his father as physically abusive. Where to end? The two-time Oscar winner (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) partly dedicated the book to "my children, who brought me up," yet he barely mentions his 11 (at least) offspring by his three wives and numerous lovers. Christian, 36, once...