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...Daniel Lederman, who was hired as a part-time coach of the men's and women's squash teams last semester, left Harvard in January because he was involved in a romantic relationship with a student on the team, Lederman confirmed last week...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Relationship Leads to Coach's Departure | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...mistake," said Lederman, who is the head squash professional at the Longfellow Club in Wayland. "I have to suffer the consequences...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Relationship Leads to Coach's Departure | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...illustrated by a shocking video clip from Hebron, played again and again on Israeli TV, showing a splash of boiling-hot tea contorting the face of Knesset member and prominent peace advocate Ya'el Dayan, daughter of war hero Moshe Dayan. According to eyewitnesses, she was approached by Yisrael Lederman, who asked, "Do you want tea?" Dayan responded, "Please." Then Lederman, later revealed to be a right-wing extremist and convicted murderer, allegedly tossed the steaming brew into her face. Dayan suffered second-degree burns; Lederman turned himself in two days later. Dayan lamented in the daily Yediot Aharonot that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OVER THEIR DEAD BODIES | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Scientists, of course, tend to bristle when they hear people speak dismissively of "research for research's sake." Leon Lederman, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, points out that many of the century's most important scientific advances -- from Einstein's theories of relativity to Watson and Crick's DNA double helix -- came out of just this kind of "pure" research. Lederman supports the President's efforts to bring more coherence and high-level attention to science policy, but he warns the Administration not to put its eggs into too few baskets. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Tread on My Lab | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

Pleading for the SSC before Congress, researchers like Lederman used the Ultimate Quest argument; others spoke of retaining America's leadership in science and technology, or of the jobs SSC would generate, or of practical spin-offs, including improvements in superconducting materials and computer software. Nonetheless, the project's super price tag -- originally estimated at $5 billion but up to $11 billion at last count -- was a perpetual and powerful counterargument. Specialists in other fields of science, and even different areas of physics, resented such largesse being heaped on a | relatively small number of researchers at a time of national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $2 Billion Hole | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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