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General "Wild Bill" Donovan, who died 20 years ago, was the Wall Street lawyer whom President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned to set up an intelligence service in 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor. At the time, the U.S. had no formal espionage arm. Snooping had been in disrepute; a decade earlier...
But neither his father nor Uncle Zoli exerted the claim on Author Korda's youthful imagination that the Imperial Alex did. Hence, Charmed Lives is both informal biography and personal memoir, taking on emotional urgency as Nephew Korda recounts his efforts not to imitate his inimitable uncle. Eventually Michael...
Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics, as well as Abdus Salam, director of the Italian-based International Center for Theoretical Physics and professor of physics at the London imperial College of Sciences and Technology, share the award.
The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences awarded the $190,000 prize jointly to Sheldon L. Glashow, professor of Physics; Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics; and Abdus Salam, director of the Italian-based International Center for Theoretical Physics and professor of physics at the London Imperial College of Sciences and...
A great deal of the Pope's message was not specifically Catholic; large chunks of what he said could have been uttered by other Christian leaders. And the Pope appealed quite specifically, and effectively, to members of other faiths; at Battery Park on the lower tip of Manhattan, he addressed...