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...seem odd for a hard-nosed industrialist to gravitate toward such esoteric fields--imagine Henry Ford fixating on the origin of the universe--but Kavli, 79, says he got the bug long before he made his fortune in the U.S. aerospace industry. He grew up on a farm in rural Norway, where he remembers being awestruck by the night sky. "There was no city nearby," he says, so when the aurora borealis lit up, "the sky was completely inflamed." Kavli's fascination with the universe deepened in college after World War II when his physics teacher relayed details from...
...Some people say we've lost our standing," former Representative Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, chairman of the moderate Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), lamented at his organization's annual meeting in Nashville on July 30. "But if there ever was a time when the country needed the DLC... it's now." The statement was defensive but accurate. The DLC, which helped provide the intellectual ballast and political strategy for Bill Clinton's presidency, seems to have fallen on hard times, at least in the élite precincts of the national political cacophony. A New York Times Op-Ed piece declared...
...Ford is right: the Democratic nominee will come "home" when the general election rolls around because the DLC has become a crucial support and policy-development vehicle for state and local elected officials, especially in the South and West-about 350 of whom showed up in Nashville. It is ironic that an organization best known among liberals for its position on Iraq spent practically no time talking about the war at its annual meeting. Not one of the DLC's 20 issue symposiums was about foreign policy. The emphasis was on state governance, issues like health care and alternative-energy...
Gross and then-Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles fired O'Brien last summer after she lost Knowles' support. A deputy dean has not been appointed since, though last September Gross created the post of senior adviser, which he asked Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam to fill...
...sleeveless shirt, blue jeans and a black motorcycle helmet when he and Jou left the family’s Rancho Santa Margarita home. Burgess, who was convicted on three counts of battery in 2002 and of performing a lewd act against a child in 2003, also owns a 1998 Ford Ranger pickup...