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...CHAPTER-SKETCHES of "Mr. Palomar" compose a fancy scheme for all possible permutations of human experience. At the end of the book, Calvino decides to let the Reader in on his secret. He has thrown in an "Index" at the end of a collection of stories. The index looks like a table of contents in which Calvino reveals that what had seemed like a zigzag wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number...
tetanus shot: what you need to get after you get thrown or fall into the Charles...
Some merchants say they wouldn't have minded if Oktoberfest had been scrapped altogether. An attendant at Journeyman's, a John F. Kennedy St. craft store, said that a passerby had thrown a soda can at the store...
...dickering while their clients considered it natural. The interplay between confident professionals and self-conscious craftsmen conveys much about misunderstandings and bad feelings in a society stratified by education and status. But in the end, the Apple Corps shows its class by doing an excellent job, including extra touches thrown in at its own expense...
...Knowns Multiflex. QUARTERBACK: In contrast to William & Mary standout Stan Yagiello--who gave the Crimson all kinds of fits last weekend--Cornell's biggest question mark has been quarterback. Senior Shawn Maguire (43-88-366) has been relieved by junior Chris Knapp in every game this year. Both have thrown one touchdown and three interceptions. RUNNING BACKS: Harvard boasts the best set of backs in the league, and that could be in evidence today. Robert Santiago, who picked up more than 100 yards last year against Cornell for only the second time in his career, had a big game last...