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...relatively free and often eccentric place. "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" was Oscar Wilde's timeless description of the hunt scene, and it is impossible, as always, to better Wilde. If a bunch of aristocrats want to get dressed up in pink suits and silly hats, surround themselves with packs of beagles and go cavorting around the English countryside blowing horns, trashing hedges and chasing foxes, then who am I to stand in their...
Harvard researchers have found what they call the most compelling evidence yet for the existence of black holes and the "event horizons" that surround them, confirming with actual observations a result predicted 86 years ago by Einstein's theory of general relativity...
...ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates said that the greatest loyalty any counselor could show a prince was to be frank and candid. It is more important for a prince, said Isocrates, to surround himself with those who disagree with him than it is to rely on those who echo his point of view. "Frankness is a virtue in a counselor," Isocrates wrote, "who must risk the ire of princes foolish enough to be offended when contradicted...
...tension between his quick temper and his capacity for detachment is not unique. It is mirrored by the clash between a self-confidence that sometimes borders on arrogance and a humility born out of faith and some experience with failure. And it is reflected also in his willingness to surround himself with smart advisers on the one hand and his disdain for haughty intellectuals on the other. The question is whether the crucible of a two-year campaign changed Bush...
That isn't exactly the atmosphere you would expect to surround a team that held an eight-point lead midway through the second half against Northeastern, letting it slip away in the end for a loss...