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...back as I can remember, my father, an artist, has urged me to explore the underutilized right side of my brain through art lessons, which somehow has never happened. Though I am frequently asked if I share his artistic talents, I can confirm that the drawing gene skips generations. As a proctor for Harvard Summer School, I was entitled to a free class, and naively signed up for Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) S-12, “Exploring the Nature of Drawing.” Finally, I would have the chance to try to create what I had criticized...
...Edwards' earliest court victories--the one in which he did the impersonation of an unborn child--has become one of his most controversial in medical circles. In 1985 he won a judgment of $6.5 million (later reduced to $4.2 million) for a child born with brain damage and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Edwards maintained that the doctor who delivered her should have more closely attended the fetal-heart monitor, which would have indicated the infant's distress, and should have opted for a caesarean delivery, which might have prevented the damage...
More than one political movie is turning up the Fahrenheit this election season. Among the documentaries, Bush's Brain builds a brief against adviser Karl Rove; Uncovered: The War on Iraq deconstructs the war's rationale; The Hunting of the President, co-directed by Bill Clinton confidant Harry Thomason, assails what it calls a long-term right-wing campaign to destroy Clinton; Control Room looks at Iraq as seen by Arab news channel al-Jazeera. Meanwhile, John Sayles' fictional Silver City gives us Chris Cooper playing a corrupt--and familiarly fumble-mouthed--gubernatorial candidate...
DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...handiwork figures to be noticeable in his student’s product. Donato expressed the highest respect for his coach as both a strategist and mentor yesterday and said he’d be a “fool” not to pick Cleary’s brain to improve his own coaching...