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...tote bag. The more enthralled I became with John, the more his enthusiasm for the Bard rubbed off on me. Somewhere over the course of my stalking-filled semester, I fell in love with the books inside the bag—Othello and Hamlet earned prominent places on the shelf I had previously reserved for the Harry Potter canon, and eventually scored a shelf of their own. When John tragically left Cambridge to move across the country, I sought another Shakespeare course in honor of his memory. I was rewarded not long after by Shakespearean Tragedy, where I fell hard...
...knowing. One might be tempted to blame the enterprising programmers behind these Q-searching tools for leading Harvard students down the road of cynical educational technician-ship. Such a claim is unfair. They aren’t administering the poison; they’re just leaving it on the shelf for the children to find. No, we’re the ones to blame, sitting around in dining halls choosing our classes by scorecard, when we ought to be taking a hard look at whether we’ve finally gone over the edge of the academic cliff...
...leaped forward. Instead of having to deconstruct Mycoplasma genitalium, Venter's team could build it from scratch. This meant that whereas once they had to reverse-engineer the organism and see when it quit working, they could take the more elegant approach of assembling it from off-the-shelf nucleotides and seeing when it switched on - essentially building life...
Gligoris walks into a squalid room in the national police headquarters. Byzantine statues, antique candleholders and other religious items are scattered about - all recoveries from recent thefts. According to Gligoris, religious artworks can change hands up to five times, in several different countries, before reaching a collector's shelf. "Usually," he says, "it's a job conducted by a criminal who wants to make a quick buck after hearing about or spotting a priceless treasure that's easily accessible...
...Wire, Simon and a staff of top-shelf crime writers like Richard Price are free to make things up. But in a way, the show is a variation on old-fashioned populist reportage à la Studs Terkel. It elevates the lowlifes and mocks the highlifes. It's steeped in lived experience, with voices as distinctive and regional as a crab boil. Simon may be angry and intellectual--The Wire differs from most TV drama, he says, because it's based in Greek tragedy about fated individuals, not Shakespearean tragedy about heroic individuals--but his show doesn't play like...