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...exhibition includes the more well-known suspects, but makes no attempt to solve the case. "It's not a whodunit," Hoffbrand says. Actually, 120 years after the fact, it doubtful anyone really wants to see the world's most famous murder mystery solved. That might spoil the rich legacy of Jack the Ripper. And rich it certainly is - a multimillion-dollar industry, featuring periodicals, chatrooms, websites, conventions and the countless books that continue to be written on the subject. The murders have also inspired numerous films, plays and TV dramas, even several stage musicals...
...There is of course a limit to even the theoretical merit of “A Million Penguins”—it may only prove the adage that too many cooks spoil the broth—but we today are too slow to consider the tools and mechanics that proverbial broth-making implies. The collaborative novel, if nothing else, gives us an opportunity to reflect on our technological situation. After all, isn’t laughter “the panacea for the pain of the human experience…like apathy is the icing on the tractor?...
...Green would have to drop all four games this weekend and see Brown take three of four from second-place Yale to relinquish its spot atop the Rolfe Division standings and its spot in the Ivy League Championship Series. But even if Harvard can’t spoil Dartmouth’s plans, it has some of its own: to prove its worth to the rest of the league after an unprecedented 1-22 start to its season...
...With two on and no one out Allard sent Madick to the circle to replace sophomre Margaux Black in an effort to stop the momentum swing. Madick, though, walked the first batter she faced to load the bases. The next hitter blasted a grand slam over the fences to spoil the Crimson’s lead. “It was a rise ball that wasn’t out of the zone enough,” Allard said. “She got on top of it and hit it out. She was a very good hitter...
...plug listeners into that same nostalgia, he also recalls the vapidity and gross superficiality that followed in its wake. As a portrait of the West’s last years in the Cold War, then, “Saturdays=Youth” succeeds splendidly, just barely hesitating to spoil moments of glowing artificial beauty with its gluttonous flare for the baroque.But make no mistake—it’s the beauty that stands out here. “Highway of Endless Dreams” builds steadily upward from a tantalizing guitar progression into an electronic sea that swirls with...