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The machinations that fencers and coaches go through to direct poor, misguided--to say nothing of short-sighted--directors vary from the subtle to the tactless.
Gardener Irvin Williams and his scouts sighted the telltale wilt in its leaves two years ago. They cut off some of the branches, but by last spring there were more signs of distress. Williams and his men gave the tree injections in a last bid to save its life. By...
Later that same week, Ed got a door slammed in his face, and over Thanksgiving vacation, the police received yet another call about him. The anxiety level among women students fearing attack was high during December--early in the month, Harvard police released a sketch of the suspect showing a...
By the time he was 12, Ed had pretty much accepted that this was the way things were going to be. Academics became more important to him and he became a good student. Third grade had been a real setback because he had to learn to read Braille, forcing him...
In the last decade of his life, Paul Cézanne experienced, perhaps more fully than any great artist since Michelangelo, the anxiety of Tantalus. The more he painted, the more he saw. The more he saw, the more manifold and unattainable truth became. "I must tell you," Cé...