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...four-day hegira from white-bread Presbyterianism to the admission that his mother was a Sephardic Jew, from the famed Lumbroso family. By week's end, Allen-the least likely Semite in Christendom-was sitting there stunned as cnn's Wolf Blitzer rattled off the list of brilliant Lumbroso ancestors: doctors, historians, the chief rabbi of Tunis! The Senator argued that his mother had been traumatized by the Nazis; her father had been pulled from his home in the middle of the night and sent to a concentration camp. She wanted to protect her children from the lethal plague...
...concern from the beginning has been the potential for damage to the reputations of those on the pro-stripper side,” he wrote in an e-mail. “As an ‘advisor’ I feel compelled to advise these young students, with brilliant careers ahead of them, that Google is forever.” The SEX-C group is led by a “Head” and “SHAFT”—Supporting-Head-Assistants-For-Transactions. Pforzheimer House Committee co-chair Katherine S. Wong said that...
...wide range of opportunities.” At the potential threat of losing faculty to the unofficial rival, Higginbotham responded, “I am not at all fearful of losing faculty members...We don’t consider our department to have cornered the market on all the brilliant people who are in our field.” “I would be disingenuous if I told you that I don’t have some nostalgia,” Higginbotham said, referring to the days when she worked alongside Appiah and West in Af-Am?...
...section only." To be taken on as a vaginal delivery patient, you either have to adjust your standards (elderly doctors are more receptive to the idea, but they're out of date with everything else) or audition. It took me four tries before I found my present doctor, a brilliant, European-trained woman who has never once promoted a C-section, and doesn't laugh at me when I ask questions like, "Will I need to wear a veil during labor?" (The answer is no, by the way, but that's because men, including one's husband, are banned from...
...Vietnam war produced astonishing stories and personalities. But nothing quite like TIME correspondent Pham Xuan An. An's secret life as a spy for Hanoi was not uncovered till long after the fall of Saigon. Until then, he was known simply as the brilliant contributor to TIME's coverage of the Vietnam war. An died Wednesday at the age of 78 in what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. Stanley Cloud, TIME's Washington Bureau Chief from 1989 to 1993, worked with An from 1970 through 1972, including a period as Saigon Bureau Chief from the summer...