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Edward (Jim) Herrgott was not an ideal student. In high school, he would skip class sometimes and rarely did his homework. But he was good-natured and kind, so his parents never worried. And Herrgott did owe some gratitude to the classroom: he met his future fiance Sara McWilliams, with him at right, at summer school. Given his penchant for mischief, Herrgott surprised his family when he announced in his senior year that he wanted to be a police officer. To earn money for his training, he joined the Army, just as his cousin T.J. Kewatt had done a year...
...businessmen who became political leaders. Is there a bond you share? It's a matter of sympathos. That's a Greek word from pathos?to understand and feel together. We share a clarity in the way you say things: yes is yes, no is no. We also share an ideal that whoever is the leader must show the people the right road. We only met two years ago, but I feel I know him like I know my grammar school friends...
Earle, who had been D.A. for less than 18 months, was pretty green. When it came time to decide whether to seek death, he consulted Robert Kane, a UT philosophy professor. Kane has written extensively about how to encourage what he calls the moral sphere--"an ideal sphere in which everybody's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are being respected," as Kane describes it. Sitting in Earle's home in the summer of 1978, he told the D.A. that sometimes, society must use the death penalty to send a message that it will protect people...
When the secret finally got out, it had sweeping repercussions. As Harvard historian of science I. Bernard Cohen (who died June 20) has pointed out, Franklin's experiment showed that electricity was not just an amusing "bizarrery" but a force of nature, like gravity. It also illustrated an Enlightenment ideal: that pure science--science done for the joy of exploring nature--could have enormous practical consequences, as shown by the lightning rod. The invention drastically reduced a perennial fire threat to churches and other tall structures. Most profoundly, it shook the belief that lightning was a sign...
Youth and naivete--and, in this case, quite a few grapes--can be the perfect ingredients for success. In 1973, Louisa and Alex Hargrave, a young couple fresh out of Harvard, set out to build a vineyard in Cutchogue, N.Y. It wasn't considered an ideal spot. For centuries, would-be vintners had been discouraged by the overly sour native grapes found along the North Fork of Long Island, a narrow stretch of land some 90 miles east of New York City. Not dissuaded, the Hargraves purchased a farmhouse along with 66 acres of land, 10,000 rooted vines...