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...Obviously you're looking for a particular spark. I started with Eliza in this case, and so it's great to have that key player in place, because you're also looking for differences. You're looking for different energy - I always think of it for some reason as people holding a quilt. Everybody's got hold of a different end, and they've really got to stretch it taut. You don't want two people who perform the same function...
...Simonton falls back on his "intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance" formulation. But what about accidental discoveries? Simonton mentions the case of biologist Alexander Fleming, who, in 1928, "noticed quite by chance that a culture of Staphylococcus had been contaminated by a blue-green mold. Around the mold was a halo." Bingo: penicillin. But what if you had been in Fleming's lab that day and noticed the halo first? Would you be the genius...
Kenneth W. Starr—the lead prosecutor of President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal—arrived at Harvard Law School yesterday night to deliver a talk on the Roberts court and its decisions on business cases, but during the course of the conversation, Starr’s controversial decision to work towards upholding Proposition 8 generated mixed views among students. Starr, a former United States solicitor general, was named as lead counsel for the official proponents of Proposition 8 last December. The California proposition, which eliminated same-sex couples’ right to marry, has remained...
...sanctions. Ross himself was not available for interviews, but his position on Iran is well known. He has long argued for ramping up economic pressure on Tehran, telling TIME in 2007 that "if Iran thinks it is actually going to be cut off economically, which has not been the case in the sanctions so far, then you have a chance to change their behavior...
...India's help was needed to strengthen the government's legal case, Qureshi said. "What they said was not legally tenable," he added, in a reference to the Indian dossier. "We need evidence that can stand up to the test of law." India promised to share whatever information it can with Pakistan. "This is a positive development," the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said of Pakistan's findings. "It remains India's goal to bring the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on Mumbai to book, and to follow this process through...