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...Collins' The Moonstone, the first English detective novel, is based on it. The task of solving the crime fell to one Jonathan Whicher, the son of a gardener and one of the original eight London policemen selected to join a new, élite unit of detectives headquartered at Scotland Yard. Kate Summerscale's THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER (Walker; 360 pages) is not just a dark, vicious true-crime story; it is the story of the birth of forensic science, founded on the new and disturbing idea that innocent, insignificant domestic details can reveal unspeakable horrors to those who know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Most Original | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Instead of a speech, he will actually hover over the Yard in a helicopter and drop fistfuls of cash...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Ways Ben Bernanke Will Appear Cool | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...East Asian Studies Sushi: Sushi for everyone! Burritos, Brain, and Behavior with the Psychology Department: Your behavior may be monitored while eating the burrito. East Asian Studies Chinese Food: Chinese food for everyone! DESSERT Women, Gender, and Sexuality Ice Cream: Our ice cream brings all the boys to the Yard / and they’re like / it’s more politically correct than yours. “Too Hot Not to Handle” Desserts with Earth and Planetary Sciences: Global warming may destroy our planet, but grab some of our cheesecake! Cookies, Milk and Music: And a bedtime...

Author: By Samantha F. Drago, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Advising, A Concentrate-able Feast | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...their first year, most Harvard students can quickly rattle off the streets which cross Massachusetts Avenue south of the yard. Dunster, Holyoke, Linden, Plympton, Bow. A recent proposal by the Cambridge City Council would add a new name to the list: Halberstam...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Road by Any Other Name | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...middle of the Yard, and two kids in a row had just peed on John Harvard. This prefrosh kid who looked like his mom had dressed him was just standing there swaying, retardedly drunk. He decided he wanted to climb John Harvard, but couldn’t. So this kid tried to shimmy up John Harvard’s freshly-peed-on, urine-soaked leg, and tried to pee on it. Of course, he pretty much missed and just peed all over himself before stumbling away...

Author: By Sarah B. Schechter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One Weekend to Rule Them All | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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