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There is no shortage of praise for Mansfield among his colleagues. Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar hailed Mansfield as "one of the most brilliant political theorists in the country...
...synaptic connections followed by their loss that leads to patterns in the brain," says neuroscientist William Greenough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Potential for greatness may be encoded in the genes, but whether that potential is realized as a gift for mathematics, say, or a brilliant criminal mind depends on patterns etched by experience in those critical early years...
...seem designed to amuse, titillate, ingratiate. Members of the group, however, beg to differ. "We don't try to please anybody," says Mel C. "What we're doing is what we want to do, what we really enjoy, and if people are receptive to it, then that's brilliant." The girls say there are positive themes in their peppy tunes. For example, Wannabe declares that friendships are more important than love affairs: "If you wannabe my lover/ You got to get with my friends." The unspoken messages Americans will probably get from this music are these: Hello, we're sexy...
With the $30 million he supposedly earns each day, why should Gates wait another 10 years to focus on philanthropy? I wish this man with a brilliant personality would invest some of his money and ideas now in environmental issues to save other creatures and our sick Mother Earth and, consequently, the human race. He would then receive from millions of people not only admiration but also love. ROBERT VAN KUYK Nijmegen, the Netherlands...
...class requires three books: The Language Instinct, Stephen Pinker's bestseller on language called "A brilliant, witty and altogether satisfying book" by the New York Times; "The Story of English," a comprehensive survey of the history of English and a text on dialects...