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...just sort of talk informally," says LeVake of his chats with fellow teachers. "I'd bring up things like 'Look at how complex this system is. It's hard for me to believe this all came about by chance mutations over billions of years.'" When department chair Ken Hubert asked LeVake point-blank how he planned to teach evolution, LeVake said, "I can't teach evolution." He instantly regretted it. "I said, 'Man, there's something wrong with what I just said,' because I think kids, when they go off to college...they have to know about Charles Darwin." LeVake...
...Nixon; David Stockman and Reagan; Judas and Jesus.) To be sure, there are people famous for loyalty, but they are often loyal to a fault, and a supposed virtue becomes pathetic, stupid, sometimes criminal. Rose Mary Woods entered history when she stood by her man's tape recorder. Hubert Humphrey probably lost the presidency when he stuck by Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam policies. Then there was always Mrs. Odysseus...
DIED. BOB SQUIER, 65, Democratic political consultant; in Millwood, Va. Squier's clients included Hubert H. Humphrey and Jimmy Carter, and his masterly political ads helped ensure Clinton's 1996 re-election (see Eulogy...
...books, taken together, right that imbalance somewhat. Edward M. Kennedy, A Biography by New York Times reporter Adam Clymer (William Morrow; 692 pages; $27.50) is a painstaking reconstruction of the Senator's life that winds up placing him alongside such other Senate giants as Hubert Humphrey and Robert Taft. In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy by Ronald Steel (Simon & Schuster; 220 pages; $23) is a hard-eyed rumination on the difference between the real (and of course flawed) Robert Kennedy and the popular memory of his greatness...
After Democrat Hubert "Skip" Humphrey lost the Minnesota Governor's race to Jesse "The Body" Ventura, his next stop was Harvard, where he joined the Institute of Politics (IOP) as a Fellow last spring...