Word: impactful
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...Antoinette's mother explains her husband's relationship to her daughter with a reference to the Bible, saying "Iron sharpeneth iron." She feels that her husband's presence has had a positive impact on her daughter. "Her stepdad has really filled in by teaching her how to have a father authority in her life," she says...
...good" school of thought, join in a celebration of Ellsworth Kelly's French period in "Reconsidering Kelly: The Early Years." The Fogg and Sackler Museums have combined force to offer this day-long series of lectures on Kelly's drawings, colleges and paintings from 1948 to 1957 and their impact on his future career. Lecturers include Roberta Bernstein, SUNY Albany; Yve-Alain Bois, Harvard University; Benjamin Buchloh, Barnard College and Columbia University Art Museum; John Elderfield, Museum of Modern Art; James Meyer, Emory University; Joan Ockman, Columbia University; and Eric Rosenberg, Tufts University. Lecture Hall, Sackler Museum...
...controversial Supreme Court Justices in American history, has died at age 90 from complications stemming from hip surgery. Appointed to the bench in 1970 by Richard Nixon, Blackmun, a lifelong Republican, will nonetheless be remembered for his liberal instincts, most famously his 1973 majority opinion that legalized abortion. The impact of that decision was explosive and enduring. Blackmun himself received some 60,000 pieces of hate mail (all of which he read) that called him a murderer and an agent of genocide...
...Nixon thought he had appointed a "strict constructionist," a conservative jurist who would read the law narrowly. But over his 24 years on the court, Blackmun showed his independence -- reliably conservative on law-and-order issues, while increasingly concerned with the practical impact of his decisions, putting victims' needs first and trumpeting the rights of individuals over the state. "Like Harry Truman, Harry Blackmun really grew in office," notes TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders, who covered Blackmun during much of the Justice's career. "Early on he was viewed as second-rate, the Minnesota twin of Warren Burger," Sanders notes...
...housing impact statement, requested by the city for the first time this year, is expected to be an annual report to the council. MIT is expected to give its statement to the council later this month...