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Summer provides Harvard students, typically too busy with extracurriculars to stray beyond the Square, with the chance to fan out across epic spans of the ever-contracting globe. Armed with aspirations of Perry-ian proportions, a great Crimson, pink, and green armada sets out, intent on forcing the world of highly competitive internships into (written) submission. Taking a cue from my illustrious colleagues, I too have set out to conquer the world...
Despite his epic campaign, O’Brien lost. Incidentally, the victor, John B. Hynes, later had a T station dedicated in his honor on the very Green Line that brought Charlie his food...
...contemporaries quickly contradicted his ideas, they were also slow to elevate him as an icon, even though he had all the ingredients to be one: an epic time (the split of a nation and a war over its future), bold ideas (union and liberty) and a violent death. One reason is that while people felt strongly the symbolic loss of a President through the nation's first assassination, few knew what to make of Lincoln as a man. Beneath the spectacular symbols of mourning--houses draped in black, endless ceremonies as his body was taken by train from Washington...
...pairing of two unpredictable inventors, who will serve as co-chairmen of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Axlon, could turn into an epic personality conflict that might make a good movie: The Wizard of Woz vs. King Pong. Right now, though, the two share the same electronic daydreams of ever smarter toys. They worked together once before, in 1974, when Bushnell hired Wozniak, then 23, to design a video game called Breakout, which became an early hit. They kept in touch over the years and started talking about the current partnership a month ago at a barbecue in the backyard of Bushnell...
Following the fortunes of one family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls...