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...commanding the space mission charged with diverting the asteroid from its deadly path. We could probably do with fewer of ambitious TV reporter Tea Leoni's problems with her wayward dad, but on the whole there are worse people with whom to spend our (presumably final) days. Director Mimi Leder handles the scene of mass panic very well, and the script does not allow the world to escape disaster completely unscathed. That's believable, and so are the nicely understated moments of self-sacrifice that bring the movie to its emotionally redemptive climax...
Standard action-film stuff, including the big-vehicle-dangling-off-a-precipice scene from Spielberg's The Lost World. It works well for a while, thanks to Mimi Leder's bustling direction and to Clooney, who has a gift for eroticizing impatience. ("Women!" his stare says. "Can't live with 'em; they can't live without me.") Then the film finds sympathy for its villain and goes softly nuts with him. In the final chase everyone's IQ drops about 20 points...
Other board members will include AndrusProfessor of Genetics Philip Leder, PuseyProfessor of Neurobiology Gerald D. Fischbach,Lehman Professor of Microbiology and MolecularGenetics Bernard N. Fields and PathologyDepartment Head Peter Howley...
Rosenberg has also been criticized for inflating patients' hopes by publicizing his experiment before there are any results to report. "It's a very high-profile research activity that Steve Rosenberg is running," Dr. Philip Leder of Harvard University School of Medicine told the New York Times. "He didn't come to you after the experiment was successful. He came at the beginning, because it might be quite uninteresting when it's all finished." Given all the attention and elevated hopes, Rosenberg should reveal his results -- even if they are uninteresting -- with the same alacrity he shows in announcing...
Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56, Gaiser Professor of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology Christopher T. Walsh and Pusey Professor of Neurobiology Gerald D. Fischbach spoke and answered questions for two hours...