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...barred tactics in combatting structures of power. Provost is also a lover of aesthetics. She is a painter, sports a nose ring and is decked in a dozen colorful bracelets. And as of last week, she has, forever inked above her heart, a flower with fists in place of stamen. “It’s to express the fact that dissent is very natural and organic,” she explains. “Dissent is really beautiful.” —Staff writer Robin M. Peguero can be reached at peguero@fas.harvard.edu...
Without honeybees and some 200,000 other species of insects, birds and small mammals, plants would be in a terrible predicament. So would humans. These creatures are the world's pollinators, quietly nuzzling and probing flowers for nectar and in the process, transferring DNA-bearing pollen from stamen to stigma. Without their work we wouldn't have healthy fruit and vegetables or viable seeds. We depend on this free service for 90% of our staple crops...
Obligingly, Harry slithers into a cauldron of bubbling body organs and coiling viscera. Now a gallery of all the women he has ever known flips on and oft, on and off, mid-screen. "All girls are yours!" the Guide exclaims. He points to one, saying: "See her stamen trembling for the electric penetration of pollen." Then Harry is rudely thrust back into a dizzying montage, "The Neurological Chess Game" of everyday life. Abruptly he is told: "It's time to play the game of death." Harry reaches for a girl-and compulsively strangles her. A hangman dangles a noose...
...Back." Minister of Lands Charles Percival de Silva, 52, who had helped found the Freedom Party, protested the admission of the Trotskyites, but reported that Mrs. Bandaranaike assured him "she wouldn't change the policies of her husband by so much as the width of the stamen of a mustard flower." When the Trotskyite support was followed by that of the pro-Moscow Communist Party, De Silva had enough. With 13 other Freedom rebels, he bolted to the opposition, causing the government to fall last month by only a single vote...
...better known as a prolific historian, biographer (his life of Harvard's great Barrett Wendell won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize) and leading citizen of Boston. As a longtime editor of the Youth's Companion and the Atlantic Monthly, Howe has moved throughout his life near the stamen of flowering and fading New England. Since his wife's death he has lived at 16 Louisburg Square with an old friend and an Irish housekeeper. Most of his books are as Bostonian as the Old North Church. Samples: Semicentennial History of the Tavern Club; Boston Common: Scenes from Four...