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Edwin O. Reischauer left the Harvard campus in 1961 to become John Kennedy's Ambassador to Japan. An eminent scholar, born in Tokyo and married to a member of a distinguished Japanese family, Reischauer seemed to epitomize the new breed of Kennedy government servants...
Fisher got involved because he met a man at a party four years ago. The man was Jeremiah Gumbs, a New Jersey businessman born on Anguilla. When Anguilla achieved its de facto independence, in May of this year, Gumbs was asked to seek out an international lawyer and, realizing he had met one, contacted Fisher, at Harvard Law School where he teaches...
...such severe brain injury that it could not long survive. There are a thousand or more such cases every year in the U.S., but long days passed before Dr. Kantrowitz got the word that he was awaiting. It came from Philadelphia's Jefferson Hospital: an anencephalic boy was born there the day after Washkansky's surgery. Dr. Kantrowitz talked with the parents, whom he described, in broad understatement, as "intelligent and understanding." They agreed to let Kantrowitz take their baby to Brooklyn to die, and to transplant his heart...
This book is by the author of Born Free, Living Free and Forever Free, but it is quite different. Before writing those animal stories, Joy Adamson had taught herself to paint and then, for more than six years, lived among the many tribes of Kenya. In hundreds of her paintings and photographs, she presents the people and their customs. Many of the ceremonies-for example, circumcision rites-have never before been observed by a white witness, and anthropologists as well as the nonspecialist reader will find much that is unusual. Among other things, the Adamson enterprise is sure to lead...
...longshoreman and one of ten siblings, Chandler was born in Lynn but raised in Roxbury. He received the degree of B.S. in Education from the Massachusetts College of Art last June, and now supports his wife and three daughters by working as community coordinator of the Jamaica Plain Area Planning Action Council...