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Many years ago, when I was 17 or 18, living in China, my father introduced me to books of Vladimir Sirin, which was Nabokov's pseudonym at that time. The first books that I read were The Luzhin Defence; King, Queen, Knave; Invitation to an Execution and some delightful...
The patent attempt by the Massachusetts Senate to kill the Serlin Bill by amending it and sending it to a committee for further consideration is irresponsible. Hitherto I have refrained from taking public sides on this issue because my natural inclination has been to favor voluntary over legislated change. George...
By that standard, Roman Catholicism is surely alive and well. Unbothered by papal warnings against dissent and rebellion, Catholic theologians are today publicly questioning established dogma in a way that might have earned them excommunication in the 19th century and execution in the 16th. Several Dutch thinkers, for example, have...
To die with his boots on was about the best a gunfighter could hope for in the end. If he died on the gallows, the amateur hangmen were apt to miscalculate the drop; at least once, the force of the fall tore the victim's head off his body...
We have been working quite hard all week to improve our form and execution in regard to blade work." Wisconsin coach Randall Jablonic said, "and we hope to be close enough to Harvard to take advantage of any mistakes they make."