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...book's editor, the force behind the volume is Tolkien's son Christopher, who spent the last 30 years collecting and synthesizing the fragments and binding them into a seamless narrative, one that will make Hurin accessible both to casual readers and to those who speak Elvish in their sleep. Christopher Tolkien has long been a caretaker and editor of his father's work. Exceedingly close to his father growing up, he became the keeper of all things hobbit upon J.R.R.'s death in 1973. This is not the first J.R.R. Tolkien book that Christopher has had a hand...
...them, The Science of Sleep, stars a major-minor international star - the very attractive Gael Garcia Bernal - and is directed by the annoyingly twee Michel Gondry, who somehow won a screenwriting Oscar for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in 2005, not to mention the hearts of audiences who forgave his vertiginous descents into near-terminal cuteness because the movie's imagery has a certain freshness...
...June 5. The night of the Senior Soiree, Thomas broke down the door of his ex-girlfriend’s dorm in Currier before falling asleep on the floor. Witnesses say that senior fullback Mike Lucas told them that Thomas was “quite drunk and needed to sleep it off.” When the woman returned to her room, she awoke Thomas and an altercation followed. According to the police report, witnesses told police they saw Thomas “strangling [the victim] with one hand” on the bed. After the witnesses yelled...
Harvard students are no strangers to sleep deprivation—the tongue-sagging, chin-dropping, drool-inducing sort that wells up after a good 30-hour stretch without sleep. Fortunately, there is rarely time in an undergraduate’s daily routine when another individual’s life is in his hands. But first-year medical residents—doctors-in-training who are in their first year out of medical school and working in hospitals—are not afforded that luxury. They traditionally work around-the-clock shifts each day and investment banking-worthy hours (without corresponding...
...complex global-distribution network and splurging on a brand-building campaign. The strategy could turn Lenovo into a far fiercer rival for Dell and HP than stately IBM was, and threatens to intensify the cutthroat competition that is a hallmark of the famously bloodthirsty PC business. "I eat, drink, sleep PCs," promises Amelio. "There is nothing else in my world...