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Shannon says this vision still holds. "It's a very serious artistic endeavor," she says. "It's not just a babysitting program...
...concern is that, in our endeavor to update our science curriculum and make it strong at a technical level, we've done it at the cost of the young scientists' thinking about the moral issues confronting them in their fields," Mendelsohn said...
...place at the right time for sweeping views, photographers stationed themselves on wharves, docks, boats, helicopters and even blimps around Liberty Island. Obtaining pictures of brilliant fireworks bursting above a completely lighted Statue of Liberty required deft calculation of proper exposures, plus a certain amount of luck. Finally, the endeavor called for printing single photographs across multiple pages, necessitating the convoluted folding of outsize pages into the rest of the magazine...
...almost four months later, the New York Times no longer editorializes about Safran and the "serious trouble which arises when the CIA's involvement in scholarly endeavor is kept quiet." Safran, the Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, is slated to give up the Center's helm at the end of the month. But no one connected with the center believes its problems will end with his directorship...
...externally imposed story. The play closes in a Shavian debate about a larger theme that resonates through all of Gurney's work: America, he says, has lost its sense of absolutes and faces the painful task of living with ambiguity. Striving for perfection in any endeavor signals an inability to cope with an unsettled world. This pastiche, conveying more than a casual cocktail notion, could easily be pretentious. Gurney makes...