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Although the data does not provide any overwhelming pattern separating the natural sciences, social sciences and fine arts, it does offer a snapshot of student experience from department to department...
...sure, history is hardly a pristine, purist endeavor. The historian can never completely recreate the past. But he can provide a snapshot or even a panorama of it. History is multi-directional--just as we influence history, so too does history influence us. This is not to deny a standard of historical veracity to which we should aspire. History is a "creative" field in that its purpose is to uncover creatively what occurred in the past, to the greatest degree of accuracy possible...
...those who would look at his likeness. John Mortimer peers out from the photo on the jacket of his new book, Felix in the Underworld, in a disconcertingly similar manner. His tightlipped, bemused smile and his merry eyes dwarved by oversize spectacles almost mock idle viewers of the snapshot. Best known for his many short stories and plays about the crotchety, crime-solving barrister Rumpole, Mortimer is hardly considered a literary relative of Orwell's, yet the immense entertainment value of his new book owes a debt to some very Orwellian features of the compelling, satisfying mystery...
...married man who deeply desired a child but feared passing on the Huntington's gene. In a recent letter to Brandt's team, John thanked them for providing the "strength and courage" to take the test, which turned out negative. Enclosed was tangible evidence of their impact: a snapshot of his three-month-old daughter...
...lives and breathes before our eyes in the hands of master director Robert Altman, who uses the film less as a conventionally plot-driven vehicle than as a slow Sunday ride through whatever catches his fancy. The result is a movie that succeeds on many levels: as a historical snapshot of a vibrant city, as a tragic dual portrait of two women from different walks of life, even just as a scrapbook of moments, riding on jazz rhythms...