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...Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says Summers’ remarks stood out because despite his rhetoric, he was still a university president—the first such leader to address the divestment movement...
...happen on his watch. That is understandable (if characteristically self-centered) because the best chance any President has for greatness is to be in power during war or disaster. Apart from the Founders, the only great President we have had in good times is Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were the "luckiest" of them all, having had the opportunity to take the country triumphantly through the two greatest wars in U.S. history...
...Unlike other Presidents-except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson-Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...
...about the Walt Disney Co.?s decision to forbid its subsidiary, Miramax Films, from releasing the film in the U.S.: ?I?m happy to announce we have a distributor in Albania. So you can now see this film in every country but one.? He quoted ?a great Republican President? - Abraham Lincoln - on how important it is to ?give the people the truth.? As for the current Republican President, Moore said at a subsequent press conference, ?I would love to have a White House screening of this film? and quipped that he bore no grudge against Bush...
...Alzheimer's. The new study, conducted by researchers at three centers in Italy, as well as New York Medical College, found that curcumin triggers production of a protein called HO-1 that protects against free radicals--at least in lab rats. According to New York Medical College's Nader Abraham, curcumin, which is also found in turnips, brussels sprouts and cauliflower, could help protect human brains as well...