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When my 47-year-old husband Fred lay dying in a hospital from a heart attack, I sobbed to my brother, "He can't die. Who will give Nate his shots?" Nate was our autistic son, then 5, and the injections were one of the myriad can't-miss cures we had tried in order to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Difficult Decision of My Life | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...Patriot Guard Riders, and in a culture in which a 24-hour news cycle and habitual political spin can make the most earnest public gesture seem tired or canned, they appear to be the real thing: a spontaneous mass movement. They formed as a response to the Rev. Fred Phelps, an attention-crazed fanatic based in Topeka, Kans., who has logged 15 years as a kind of paleo-fundamentalist, gay-baiting performance artist. Last spring Phelps grabbed the already troubling line, taken by preachers such as Pat Robertson, that disasters like 9/11 were God's punishment for American sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Harley Honor Guard | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...insults. Soon the riders outgrew the protesters. Phelps' church has only about 75 members, mostly his relatives. But the newly named Patriot Guard expanded exponentially and today claims 28,000 bikers and supporters. They attend every single military funeral for which the family gives permission. "We joined because of Fred Phelps, but now the whole focus is off Fred Phelps," says California state coordinator Cheryl Egan. "It's more about the troop who just gave his or her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Harley Honor Guard | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...title hints, is in fact, all about birds. Two Athenians, who are on the run because they owe money, flee to the birds in a desperate attempt to evade their debts. The ambitious Peisetaerus (Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08) and sidekick Euelpides (Fred C. Brown ’06) soon devise a bizarre plan to found a kingdom of birds under his rule and to take over Olympus, with the help of Tereus (Rory N. Kulz ’08) the human leader of the birds. Most impressive was how the Classical Club managed the difficult task...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jazzed, Snazzed, and Up-to-Date ‘Birds’ Soars | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

Philosophy captured Godfrey-Smith’s attention while he was an undergraduate at Sydney University. A book by Fred I. Dretske, “Knowledge and the Flow of Information,” sparked his interest in philosophy of mind in particular...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Philosophy Dept. Tenures Visiting Prof. | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

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