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...Although he died a literary celebrity, lionized by the culture of which he was so unsparing, Vonnegut was always drawn to outcasts and failures in his writing: criminals, the deformed, the exiled, the damaged, the insane, anyone who no longer had a stake in repeating society's familiar lies. The cast of Cat's Cradle includes one of those outcasts, a midget to whom Vonnegut gave the title speech...
...claimed by both countries, and the dispute has so far prevented either from tapping the oil and gas. Joint development is the only realistic solution, but with the two competing over everything from natural resources to global influence, neither can afford to back down. "Both sides have face at stake," says Ryosei Kokubun, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Tokyo's Keio University...
This course succeeded because it revolved entirely around our organizing projects. We had a personal stake in each week’s reading, and the readings in turn greatly informed our work outside the classroom. This synergy created a learning experience that transcended anything we’d previously encountered in a Harvard class...
...odors. "The smells weren't all horrible," says Sylvain Delacourte of Guerlain. "Some were pleasant and fragrant." The predominant scent, vanilla, indicated that the relics came from a body that had decomposed naturally; the organic compound vanillin is produced during this process. Set alight while tied to a stake (three times over, if legend is to be believed), St. Joan of Arc's body clearly didn't meet such a natural end. Sniffing is rarely used in the field of paleopathology yet such was the positive correlation between Charlier's own results and those of his team of smellers that...
...seventh, but no other Crimson player reached base in that frame as Cornell finalized the sweep.CORNELL 9, HARVARD 8The Big Red scored five times in the bottom of the sixth to come from behind and capture the opener yesterday in Providence.Freshman third baseman Melissa Schellberg had helped stake the Crimson to a 8-4 lead entering the penultimate inning with three runs batted in, but Cornell’s bats came alive with seven hits in the bottom of the frame to pull ahead for the win.Junior Shelly Madick had held the Big Red in check until that point...