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Famous for his temper and contempt for authority, Dr. Gallo has weathered his share of scientific catfights. A brilliant scientist, he is the author or co-author of more than 1,000 scientific papers and one of the world's most frequently cited researchers. In the 1970s, while at the National Cancer Institute, he discovered the immune-boosting molecule interleukin-2 and isolated the first cancer-causing retroviruses in humans...
...STILL IN CONTEMPT...
...coat. De Vil is Disney's wildest villain: slinky, sophisticated, overbearing, and utterly deranged. Given the chance to indulge herself by playing such a comically evil figure, Glenn Close delivers a masterful and unrestrained performance. Close gets to verbally abuse every character in the movie, shouting her insults with contempt and devilish glee. She also perfects the look of materialistic dementia that defines Cruella's character. Because the puppies are real, rather than animated, De Vil's desire to turn them into an extravagant possession seems all the more depraved...
That response may seem extraordinary for a man whose two daughters were slaughtered, and it is far from certain that his attitude is shared by all Tutsi. Many made no effort to conceal their contempt for the returning Hutu. Many more, however, seemed to greet the returnees with Ruziga's air of orderly acceptance and restraint--an outlook that may stem from Rwanda's unique social structure. Unlike most African nations, which were cobbled together by colonial mapmakers, Rwanda was a tightly organized kingdom long before the Europeans arrived. A Tutsi god-king headed an elaborate system of civil administration...
Raban, an English travel writer resettled in the U.S., is a good and shrewd observer. He sees the origins of today's political attitudes--the Westerners' reflexive contempt for environmentalism and genial hatred of the Federal Government--in the homesteaders' ordeal by hailstorm and bankruptcy. But what makes Bad Land exceptional, on a level with William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways and PrairyErth, is a pervasive sense of yearning. The author is powerfully drawn to this hard country, this broad and nearly featureless landscape, and the reader does not doubt that had Raban been born in 1880, he would...