Word: benjamin
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...favor. It involved the question of whether an internal CBS study of the show, inspired by a TV Guide article last May calling the program "a smear," was protected by a business or journalistic privilege of confidentiality. The study was conducted by CBS News Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin and was summarized by CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter in a memorandum made public in July. Drawing on Benjamin's study, Sauter conceded that the program had deviated from certain CBS News practices, but stood by its substance as essentially accurate. Westmoreland's lawyers, contending that Sauter...
Animal Behaviorist Benjamin Beck of the University of Illinois at Chicago calls attention to still another human delusion, the species bias. Says he jokingly: "On tests for giraffes, where intelligence might be equated with neck length, humans test out below horses and ostriches...
...Harvard has no intention of discontinuing its purchases, Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of food services, said yesterday...
According to Galtieri, the confusion within Argentina's military leadership was even worse. Visiting the Falklands, he found his soldiers so badly deployed that he thought of relieving General Mario Benjamin Menéndez, commander of the 10,000-man garrison on the islands. Galtieri later rejected the idea for fear that it would cause panic among the dispirited troops. As conditions deteriorated, he says, Menendez "seemed to shrink five centimeters every day." Faced with a severe equipment shortage, Galtieri reveals that he bought ten Mirage jets from Peru, then cut a deal with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi...
...dark repoussoir trees framing a view of bright space at the center, and this can make them too charming to a modern eye. Constable himself remarked that The Cornfield "has certainly got a little more eyesalve than I usually condescend to give." But the great fact of nature, as Benjamin West had pointed out to Constable, was change. Shadows, vapors, clouds, the dewiness of grass in the morning, the dryness of leaves in the evening: nothing is fixed in a schema. Constable became convinced that he must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would...