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...Edward Teller's intense concern with the menace of tyranny traces back to his Hungarian childhood. When Teller was born, in 1908, into a Jewish family with culture and money, citizens of gay, well-fed Budapest could believe that the world was solid, dependable. But Austria-Hungary got into World War I on the losing side, and the seemingly solid world crumbled ... With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned into his son two grim lessons: 1) he would have to emigrate to some more favorable country when he grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...Square" Scientist Physicist Edward Teller [Milestones, Sept. 22], the "father of the hydrogen bomb," was a fervent foe of Nazism and communism. Our Nov. 18, 1957, report noted the reasons for this opposition and described the young Teller's facility in math...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...municipality, both of these big figures would actually have the legal power to control their own education policy. Yet, for D.C., it’s Congress that controls the budget. And when the usual political leaders failed to support the Democratic Party line, anti-voucher forces encouraged Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., ranking member of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, to stage a filibuster. Kennedy and committee Democrats—most of whom practice what might be called private...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: The Party Against the People | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers responded to a report that Griffin Gibson and Edward Foye, two Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) workers, were accosted by a person with a gun, according to HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Workers Threatened Outside DeWolfe | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...history. The present clubhouse was built between 1790 and 1813, but the 142-hectare estate is even older?previous occupants have included Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I, who was kept prisoner there by the Scots in 1647. It was Stoke Park that moved 17th century politician Sir Edward Coke to utter that famous line: "An Englishman's home is his castle." For a few hours, it can be your castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Airport Lounge | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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