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Harvard was hours away from naming former Detroit News editor Robert H. Giles curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, but postponed a decision after protests regarding his role in a bitter strike at the News surfaced, sources said this week...
...every revolution there comes that bitter moment when the flag-waving has to stop, the grand social theories have to adapt to reality, and a large number of the revolutionaries inevitably find themselves hauled off to the guillotine. The dotcom revolution is no different, except that, true to form, it has accelerated the process. The time it takes to go from hero on the barricades to zero with your head in a basket has shrunk to a nanosecond...
...this room," Venter told TIME last Thursday, "have found a way to put the human emotions behind us. There are things we have all said that, given a rational condition, we wish we hadn't said." Said Collins simply: "I heartily agree." With any luck, their bitter dispute, which has loomed so large for so long, will be a minor footnote in the genomic revolution that has barely begun...
...exploring the strange world of Harvard relationships as soon as your arrive. If you wait until February of your first year to break up with Alissa or James, you'll be overwhelmed when you finally venture out into the Yard social scene. Harvard's dating pool is inundated with bitter, post-reading-period dumpees on the rebound and dumpers "not yet ready for a relationship...
...three principal Sonnenschein heirs are all played by Ralph Fiennes. The first of them, Ignatz, changes his name to Sors, in order to advance his career as a judge faithfully serving the empire. He ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into...