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Gleeson, nearing 90, continues to issue Surrealist thunderbolts from his Sydney studio; a retrospective due at the National Gallery of Victoria in October should confirm his Zeus-like status. "Do not commit suicide," Gleeson wrote in 1941, "for Surrealism has been born." It lives...
Pittsburgh, Pa., Bishop Donald Wuerl has recently asserted that "sometimes a single issue will be so important that it overrides a whole range of lesser issues." Yet many experts who confirm abortion's import insist that the issue does not impose lockstep political behavior on believing voters. The church allows believers commonsense, or "prudential," latitude in fitting doctrine to political action. That is not license to contradict teaching, but an acknowledgment of the delicacy of its application in the real world. In practice, says the Rev. John Langan of Georgetown University, prudence could translate into supporting Pennsylvania's pro-choice...
During the year, two candidates considered for the post—Randy Schekman from the University of California at Berkeley and Gerald F. Joyce, from the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California—would neither confirm nor deny that they were offered the position...
...Students tend to respond to systems,” Wright-Swadel said. “If the graduate schools and the professional schools are saying, ‘Go away for two or three years, confirm what you want to do,’…that two-year window is different from really being undecided...
State Department of Public Health investigators also stepped in to take samples of contaminated foods to confirm the specific species of Salmonella that caused the poisoning. Samples were also taken from kitchen staff and students who worked in the Union or the Varsity Club kitchens...