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It’s usually a good rule of thumb that multi-part stories should get out while the getting’s good. Consider the ugly spectacle of works that keep beating the old horse, unaware that the good days are long gone: the sixth season of “24,” for instance, or the 11th “Redwall” book...
...that we have a female president, must we also have flowers in Harvard Yard? The association between gender and botany isn’t so eccentric as it first appears—Radcliffe has always had a greener thumb. Visitors from Oxford and Cambridge have often noted the lack of flower-beds in the yard, and so have those from Princeton and Yale. But why the austerity? Like any lusty mistress of knowledge, I consult the oracular geniuses. In this case, Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, who after a learned cadenza through Harvard History said...
...Pakistan is in a continuous state of emergency." Many in the bazaars of Islamabad's slum areas share his indifference. While politics in Pakistan are often waged in the name of the poor, few in the lower classes feel that they have anything to gain. "The main rule of thumb in Pakistani politics is that everyone safeguards their own interest first. No one really cares about the people," says Enyat Hussain, a fresh-juice vendor at Islamabad's Melody food market. At nearby Abpara Market, newspaper vendor Amjad Iqbal watched as anti-emergency-law protesters shouted slogans and waved flags...
...recently dropped my gizmo down the stairs. This was an unhappy event. It survived, but with a fat, thumb-shaped dead zone on the screen, a reminder of my negligence every time I can't read the end of an e-mail. It's like that tiny scar on your little girl's cheek where the swing hit her because you turned away for a second. There must be some natural law, that the smaller something is, the more emotional space it takes up, the more time and energy it absorbs...
...firm Simons Muirhead & Burton and a specialist in media law, says he can imagine a scenario in which a gag order might become untenable because websites, wherever they are based, "are becoming freely accessible by nearly everybody. There could be an issue of trying to put your thumb in the dam, but it hasn't quite got to that stage yet." In the case of the anonymous royal embroiled in the alleged blackmail plot, the dam has already been breached...