Word: authored
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...gets sick will die." A highly regarded Berkeley study suggests that as many as 52% of the city's 70,000 to 100,000 gay men have been exposed to the virus; from 4,000 to 8,000 people will become ill during Agnos' four-year term. Randy Shilts, author of And the Band Played On, a chilling chronicle of the disease, says gays in San Francisco are facing an "unrelenting tragedy of increasing proportions...
...Nitze was an author of the so-called Gaither report to Dwight Eisenhower, which warned that within two years the Soviets would be able to carry out a "disarming attack" against "our deterrent power." That alarm helped John F. Kennedy proclaim the "missile gap" in his campaign against Richard Nixon. Nitze, an adviser to Kennedy, was rewarded with a Pentagon appointment, first as an Assistant Secretary of Defense, then as Secretary of the Navy. During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, he was at the heart of the action as a member of J.F.K.'s ad hoc Executive committee...
...latest author did just that, launching an unprecedented attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert A.K. Runcie, since 1980 Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 65 million-member Anglican Communion (including U.S. Episcopalians). The Archbishop, a decorated tank commander in World War II who earned the name "Killer Runcie," was characterized in Crockford's as a spineless churchman who evinces no "clear basis for his policies other than taking the line of least resistance on each issue...
...Dean Graham Allison, author of Essence of Decision...
...will feature such speakers as famed Italian author and linguist Umberto Eco as well as presentations from academics...