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When they got to Geneva, Gaghan learned that "all the business of the Middle East is conducted in hotel lobbies." Schmoozing with oil traders and arms dealers at the Hotel Intercontinental, he spotted former Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, still one of the world's most powerful people...
One is the brother of the president, a member of the nation's reigning Republican political dynasty; the other is a movie star who married into the nation's most enduring Democratic political dynasty. Between them, they govern two of the biggest states in the country. But while Florida's...
SPERM SHORTFALL IN BRITAIN British students who donate sperm for beer money suddenly got shy when they learned that laws protecting their anonymity were about to change. The number of applicants at Newcastle Fertility Center--a leading collection point--fell from 175 in 1994 to 25 in 2003.
Amid the chaos and crowds of Coney Island, Ed Zander learned an early lesson in the value of hustle and patience. The son of a furrier in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Zander loved the Parachute Jump, the Silver Streak and, of course, the Cyclone. After school he and his brother would stand...
Veritas is dying at Harvard, and we must look no further than our classrooms to see this tragedy unfolding. With even the best lecturers, truth comes across as an inert object in a fixed world. We are turned into empty receptacles for this pre-packaged knowledge, which we are then...