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Aiding Chrysler, the weakest of the big three auto companies, penalizes those that are fitter and undermines the competitive principle. Darwin would not have approved of bailing out Chrysler...
However, 85 years of lobbying by alumni with pull, especially State Senator Darwin E. Ware, Class of 1852, led to a legislative act which resulted in the "complete severance in 1865 of formal ties to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." according to a recent report of the Board of Overseers...
James R. Killian Jr., retired president of M.I.T.: The five indispensable books are Darwin's Origin of Species, Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe, Ernst Mayr's Growth of Biological Thought, the works of Thomas Huxley, James Watson's Double Helix, René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, Eric Ashby's Technology and the Academics: An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams...
...beginning, nobody could have seemed less like a saint. Born in Brooklyn in 1897, the daughter of a lapsed Episcopal mother and an atheistic father whose holy passion was the race track, Day did not even become a Catholic until she was 30. At 15 she was reading Darwin. Marx soon followed. After dropping out of the University of Illinois, she went to work for $5 a week for a socialist daily, the Call, on New York's Lower East Side. One of her first assignments was to interview Leon Trotsky. Before she was 20, she became an editorial...
...British forces closed in on Port Stanley, a somber, war-weary mood replaced the earlier exuberance in Buenos Aires. The patriotic fervor seemed to have wilted like the faded blue-and-white flags that dangled from telephone wires under a winter drizzle. On hearing of the loss of Port Darwin and Goose Green last week, an almost tearful hotel desk clerk pleaded, "We simply have to win this war. No other war really mattered as much to our pride and our history as this-we must...