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...Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices, to acute shortages of even basic foodstuffs, a foreign debt of $1 billion, increasing unrest and repression and a "brain drain" of educated Guyanese from what was once one of Britain's most prosperous and attractive Latin American colonies...
...male domination of the female--Latin machismo, in other words. The man's upper body is rigid, and the woman revolves around him; down below, their legs and feet meet and embrace in steps too involved even for a computer to comprehend. "The tango is a connection between the brain, the heart and the legs," says Virulazo Orcaizaguirre, 58, who looks like a Hispanic Rodney Dangerfield but moves like a slim lad of 20. "First, you feel with your heart. Then the brain tells you what to do with your feet...
After all, for decades scientists and others have been ransacking the brain for the soul of an equally mysterious power: genius. Perhaps the most famous case is Einstein. Slices of his brain were recently pored over by a pair of California neuroscientists. More revealing of the bizarre possibilities of this kind of scientific quest is the case of Lenin. In 1925 the Soviets, applying a socialist definition of genius, entrusted his brain to a German neurologist, Oskar Vogt. The idea, explains Psychiatrist Walter Reich, was "to establish an institute in Moscow entirely devoted to the purpose of discovering the 'materialist...
...context of this lunatic search for Lenin's "genius," a kind one. A better word is reductionist: there is no better example of scientific reductionism than to look for--let alone to pretend to have found--the source of Lenin's powers in the pyramidal cells of his brain. Even if one were to concede that in principle, and in some far-off century, psychology will be reducible to anatomy, science will hardly give us the key to evil and genius, which are, after all, not physical but cultural phenomena. The problem is one of categories. Was Lenin a genius...
DIED. James Groppi, 54, former Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist who marched in Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King Jr., led at least 200 marches for open housing in Milwaukee and was arrested more than a dozen times for his protests; of brain cancer; in Milwaukee. When Groppi left the priesthood in 1976 to marry a fellow activist, he was excommunicated from the church. He later worked as a bus driver and in 1983 became president of his city's transit-union local. He once told an interviewer, "Agitate, agitate, agitate is my motto...