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...Often in mathematics you discover a marvelous result, then find it's already been done. This happens all the time as a student, when you often find your supposed discoveries a mere 10 pages ahead in the textbook," Elkies said. But sometimes you get lucky. Work stemming from his Olympiad training led to his first published discovery. Apparently something of a boy-wonder, he came to Harvard for graduate school at 19, got his Ph.D. at 20, an assistant professorship at 23, and was tenured a month before his 27th birthday...
Characters in Wargnier's films are subservient to the plot. Like pictures in a textbook, they become concrete incarnations of the political and historical contexts where Wargnier puts them. In his latest film, East-West, Wargnier has chosen post-World War II Russia as the setting of another ambitious story of epic proportions. Events are presented in a more focused and coherent fashion than in Indochine, characters have more depth and credibility, but the film does not escape Wargnier's predilection for clichs and characters whose personal attributes are secondary to their role as symbols of his political and moral...
Harvard's ninth-inning rally was textbook smallball. Franey worked a four-pitch leadoff walk and moved over on Binkowski's sacrifice bunt. Lentz then beat out a ground ball to deep short to put two men on for Bridich, who turned on Boehle's inside fastball and one-hopped it off the left-field wall...
According to Long, outside-funded research is rarely discussed in undergraduate classrooms, where most of the topics are well established and can be found in any textbook...
...considered too young to understand the consequences of his behavior. Busch alleges that by making the gun available to the boy, James was "grossly negligent" and contributed to the delinquency of a minor - a misdemeanor that led, Busch claims, to the shooting, and charges of manslaughter. "This is a textbook example of criminal negligence," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "If you create a situation in which it's reasonable to expect that someone will get hurt, you can be held responsible for that injury...