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...What might give Sudoku brain cred to a veteran puzzle-solver like me? Two things. About a dozen of the book versions of the game carry the august authorship of Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times crossword, and star of the spiffy new documentary Wordplay, which opens this weekend in select cities. And among Sudoku's greatest fans is my sister-in-law, Pat Thompson Corliss...
...most organizations, an individual or board has the last word on decisions, especially one this controversial. Yet nobody claims authorship of the decision to install the new machine--neither the curator nor the project's main architect. Technical advice was provided by Ingéni, an air-systems consultancy firm based near Paris, which had designed systems for supermarkets and museums but had no experience with caves. "We proposed a system, and that's what they chose," says the firm's managing director, Michel de la Giraudière. "I don't know why they favored an active system over a passive...
...title and please me." Not only did Mercer add a little - no, a lot ("And that's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet, / When I sit there applauding from a front row seat, / When somebody breaks your heart / Like you broke mine") - he assigned Mrs. Vimmerstedt co-authorship and 50% of the royalties. Sadie was pleased. So was Tony Bennett, when he made a hit of "I Wanna Be Around...
...Harvard student for these four years of her life should not strip her of her personal identity. She should be held accountable, above all, to herself, not to an institution—even if that institution, at least in the public eye, defines her first. In her (dubious) authorship of “Opal Mehta,†we should see Viswanthan as a writer first, and a Harvard student second...
...course, to “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,†the recently published chick-lit novel by sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 that first became famous for its singular inception, and then infamous for its not-so-singular authorship. The book’s merits and demerits aside, it is, in many respects, a product of Harvard and a reflection of our community...