Word: legacyism
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AS A PAKISTANI CANADIAN I READ WITH great interest your coverage of Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan [Jan. 14]. While I sincerely condole her untimely and fiery death, I must agree with William Dalrymple that her legacy was "mediocre." Far from being a martyr for freedom and democracy, she chose to...
M. Judah Folkman, a Harvard Medical School professor and a groundbreaking biomedical pioneer, died of a heart attack in the Denver International Airport on Monday. He was 74. Folkman was most famous for his impact on cancer treatment through his investigation of blood vessels’ role in tumor growth...
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933, Folkman had a passion for medicine that began early, in visits to hospitals with his father, a rabbi. Keeping in mind his father's advice to be a "rabbi-like doctor," Folkman honed two often competing abilities, becoming both a razor-sharp researcher and...
Although we welcome Bush’s initiative, we worry about his desire to have a peace in place by the time he leaves office. The peace processes should not be dictated by the electoral cycle and a lame duck president’s desire to craft a legacy. The...
The Embassy's strict security precautions are the legacy of hard lessons. In 1976, Palestinian gunmen kidnapped and killed Francis Meloy, a newly arrived U.S. ambassador, before he could even present his credentials. Seven years later, nearly 300 Americans were killed in suicide truck bomb strikes against the embassy and...