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...matter what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says, they could just as well have met as schoolboys. And it is more than likely that the twigs that grew into the sturdiest oaks of detective fiction were bent way back when: Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) brainy and arrogant, John Watson (Alan Cox) loyal and bumbling...
...critics revered the Bard's tragedies but undervalued his comedies, overlooking their moral complexity and their glimpses of humiliation and pain in commoners' everyday life. The stress on low comic exaggeration also robs Twelfth Night of much of its social consequence: there is little sense that the battle between Sir Toby Belch and Malvolio has anything to do with the decline of the old gentry and the rise of the bourgeoisie...
...famous anecdote, Galileo Galilei clambered to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, simultaneously dropped cannonballs of different sizes and found that they all hit the ground at the same time. He thus convinced the world--and in the years to come, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein as well--that in a vacuum all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed. Galileo's work went unchallenged until last week, when Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, three of his graduate students and S.H. Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, reported discerning...
...travel, editing, guest teaching, committee work, freelancing and generally keeping up with friends and the literary network on both sides of the Atlantic. The impression left is of a benevolent man who dolefully plays his role as a cultural emissary. He has the appropriate lean aristocratic looks, a title (Sir Stephen since 1982) and a long list of awards and honorary posts, including a term as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. It is not hard to imagine his audiences of college students and Anglophiles treating him as lesser nobility, a surviving link to the Bloomsbury group of Virginia...
...Iraq, down from 55% in February, according to a Pew poll. The Administration has also been put on the defensive by the so-called Downing Street memo, a set of minutes of a July 2002 meeting held by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In it, then British intelligence chief Sir Richard Dearlove asserted that during a recent visit to Washington he found that "military action [in Iraq] was now seen as inevitable" and that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." The memo adds significantly to other pieces of evidence that Bush was intending war while talking...