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Ray Smith, chairman of Bell Atlantic and the force behind the company's historic purchase of TCI, has probably compiled a ''theatrical resume.'' Productions not shown include The Most Eminent Saga (director and playwright) and Marat/Sade (director).
Eminent thinkers, from Tolstoy to contemporary philosophers like Martha Nussbaum and George Kateb, have denounced patriotism on exactly those grounds: that it's wrong to prefer one's countrymen and -women to people in other lands. Patriotism, in Kateb's words, is illiberal; it "is an attack on the Enlightenment...
"We both share a great love of history," said Brown at their London press conference. History is the judge the two leaders are relying on to decide in their favor at some indeterminate future date. They may have picked up a few good tips from the clutch of eminent British...
Watson, a former vice president of ABC News, called Clymer—who also served as the chair of The Crimson’s Graduate Council until this past April—“one of the eminent political journalists of our time.”
Since then, Soderbergh has won an Oscar (for directing Traffic), guided Julia Roberts to a statuette of her own (for Erin Brockovich) and launched an action-movie franchise (Ocean's), while Tarantino, a slower worker, created the vertiginous, voluminous Kill Bill. Today both gents were back on the Riviera, Soderbergh...