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...addition to Raines, three men with Harvardlaw degrees were selected to head clusters: SamuelBerger will lead the search on state and nationalsecurity, while Peter Edelman '58 and BernardNussbaum will direct the group on justice andcivil rights...
...answer is that the culture of the Republican Party is hostile to independent scholarship. This shows best in the religious arena, where Fundamentalists think all positions but their own -- those, for instance, of a Mario Cuomo or a Jesse Jackson, of a Bill Moyers or a Marian Wright Edelman -- are not truly religious but masked forms of irreligion. It is hard, even for many sincerely devoted to religion, to have a useful discussion with Fundamentalists who consider them satanic...
...stars in the Milky Way. Each one of these receives input from about 10,000 other neurons in the brain and sends messages to a thousand more. The combinatorial possibilities are staggering. The cerebral cortex alone boasts 1 million billion connections, a number so large, marvels neuroscientist Gerald Edelman in his recent book about the brain, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, that "if you were to count them, one connection per second, you would finish counting some 32 million years after you began...
...staged the musical sequences, make remarkably rich use of a nearly bare stage. Ann Crumb, who starred in Aspects of Love in London and on Broadway, makes modest Anna's eruption into passion completely believable and is deeply affecting in her final derangement. Surrounding her are exceptional men: Gregg Edelman as the hapless gentleman farmer Levin, Scott Wentworth as a reckless but wholly admirable version of Vronsky and, most striking, John Cunningham, who overcomes caricatured writing of Anna's estranged husband to reveal a man poignantly wrongheaded and, in his way, as doomed as his desperate spouse...
...select an author? Or a social activist in the Marion Wright Edelman mold? Anyone could bring fresh perspective to this crusty old body. And the presence of professors on the board will ensure that the Corporation's decisions are in the best interests of academia...