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Swords. All around me are razor edged, flesh rendering rapiers. Big swords. Sharp swords. Scary swords. Swords full of....chicken hearts? I'm at Midwest Grill, the churrasco rodízio Brazilian barbecue buffet in Inman Square. It's a drizzling Friday night and the place is packed with patrons and enough grilled meat to justify a PETA rally at the front steps.
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To the Editor: We are a group of Professor Laurence H. Tribe's current and recent research and teaching assistants. We have read with interest your coverage of an allegation that has been leveled against Professor Tribe ("Dean of Mass Law School...", "Harvard Owes Students Explanation...," Oct.
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As a long-time Olympic gymnastics fan, Greg Skidmore's article did not do justice to Paul Hamm factually. The failure of judges to value Yang Tae-Young's parallel bars routine at its proper start value was not their only mistake on that same routine. Gymnasts are only allowed three "holds" during the course of a parallel bars routine and Tae-Young used four, which should have resulted in an automatic .
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The failure of John Kerry to secure the presidency marks a dark time for the Democratic party. Though George W. Bush had the advantage of being an incumbent during a time of war, he also has record deficits, a polarized electorate, and increasing failures in the aforementioned war.
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Fenno was pissed. Flyout week was over. Fenno had pulled every trick in the book to snooker his callback firms into fronting what was essentially a ten-day vacation - an orgy of room service, fitness centers, and in-room movies, topped off by a single, wondrous night of passion in Washington with an impressionable young lady who had a weakness for free hotel soap.
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Lawyers often deal with questions of proof: they debate evidence in court, do meticulous research to support their claims, and rebut arguments from opponents. Scientists and mathematicians must likewise struggle with the question of when to accept something as fact and when to challenge it.
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an unopened honeydew: poised against a black-blue plate: the moon pressed at a distance: the moon as fine as an indigo morning leaves no imprint in its wake: a seashell: a glass palindrome: above Boston the moon
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With the World Series over, the attention of sports fans has now turned to intercollegiate and interscholastic sports. High school playoffs. Midnight Madness. Conference championships. Aside from playing for one's country, perhaps the greatest source of pride for an athlete is representing his or her school in athletic competition.
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Like a lot of people this groggy post-election morning, I've really had enough of politics, and specifically of this campaign. Not much makes me nostalgic for the British version of democracy, but as our own campaign seems to have staggered towards its unsurprisingly turgid end, one has to admire a general election system which limits this unpleasantness to a few weeks every five years or so.
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When one 1L student approached his professor to find out why he had received a certain grade, the professor responded, "If you got anywhere between an A and a B, hopefully I got it right." In another section, the Professor announced before the exam, "Don't bother to come and ask me why I graded a certain way.