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...deserve it just from this neighborhood,” said Gawande. The MacArthur Fellowship program has gained much prestige since its inception in 1981. Past winners include Harold Bloom, Twyla Tharp, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and former Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould. Because the winners are chosen from nominations, not applications, the professors were taken by complete surprise. “I couldn’t believe it, I thought it was a prank caller,” Eggan told the Associated Press (AP). Eggan, whose stem cell cloning research is controversial among pro-life activists, said...
...Some of the changes in the Middle East are happening gradually, but they are real. Algeria has held its first competitive presidential election, and the military remained neutral. The United Arab Emirates recently announced that half of the seats in its Federal National Council will be chosen by elections. Kuwait held elections in which women were allowed to vote and run for office for the first time. Citizens have voted in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, in parliamentary elections in Jordan and Bahrain, and in multiparty presidential elections in Yemen and Egypt. These are important steps, and the governments should...
...your vibrant culture, and your many contributions to civilization. You deserve an opportunity to determine your own future, an economy that rewards your intelligence and your talents, and a society that allows you to fulfill your tremendous potential. The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism, and fuel extremism, and pursue nuclear weapons. The United Nations has passed a clear resolution requiring that the regime in Tehran meet its international obligations. Iran must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions. Despite what the regime...
Just as children resolve not to make the mistakes of their parents, the paths the two women have chosen reverse the approaches taken by their offspring. Tupac was a troublemaker. By the time he died at age 25, he had shot two off-duty cops, been convicted of sexual abuse, and assaulted a film director. He had also sold about 20 million records and starred in six movies. Wallace's son spent time as a drug dealer on the corners of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood but got credibility from his way with rap rather than his rap sheet. Tupac...
...Sepe. Replacing Sepe with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, was proof that the Pope isn't afraid to take on the Vatican status quo. It also was an acknowledgment that the man responsible for overseeing more than a thousand dioceses in the developing world might best be chosen from the developing world...