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...treasured stories of biblical cunning. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob outsmarts his parsimonious uncle Laban while tending Laban's flocks. First he tells Laban to cull all spotted sheep and goats out of the flock for safekeeping, then offers to tend the "monochrome" remainder (white sheep, black goats), taking only spotted offspring as his pay. Laban quickly agrees. Jacob sets about having the animals couple in front of peeled branches. They produce large numbers of spotted offspring, and Jacob becomes rich...
...pious legend? Not necessarily, says Israeli Botanist Yehuda Feliks. Writing in a monumental new set of reference books called the Encyclopedia Judaica, Feliks identifies Jacob's secret as a keen perception of the laws of heredity. (The peeled branches were just window dressing.) Jacob apparently knew from a dream that the hybrids (white sheep and black goats that carried recessive genes of "spottedness") matured sexually earlier than the pure monochromes in the flock. He mated the hybrids, and their recessive genes emerged to produce a maximum of spotted offspring in each generation. He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred...
...Woolf. She was among the great innovative novelists; she had the enormous courage to trust her private imaginings and to interpret them even though those visions were sometimes insane. In the same sunburst year of 1922 when Ulysses and The Waste Land appeared, she published her first major novel, Jacob's Room. It was hailed for the beauty of its imagery and the uniquely flexible prose that marked all her work...
...praises of Democratic Senator James Eastland, while never mentioning Gil Carmichael, the Republican who is running against him. Stunned by such a direct slap in the party's face, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drafted a letter supporting Carmichael that was signed by 12 G.O.P. Senate colleagues, including Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy...
Directed by BOB RAFELSON Screenplay by JACOB BRACKMAN...