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...boxes. "My desk, my chairs, my floors are cluttered," says Baltimore, who at 67 still plays a big role in biomedical research. He copes like the rest of us: "You have a hierarchy of what's important, like your family, your dog, your friends, your students." As for lesser matters? "Those you let sit in the pile and see if they go away...
...that prosecutors in the Abramoff case may even test the proposition that legally reported campaign contributions constitute bribery, if it can be proved they were given expressly in return for official actions. A high-level source tells TIME that prosecutors will also focus much of their energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove charge of "honest services mail fraud," for which they have to show only that a lawmaker has acted in his personal interest or that of another individual but not of his constituents in return for improper gain. That lowering of the bar for criminal-corruption cases...
...Evans’ edition of Shakespeare’s complete works “a splendid, enduring accomplishment.” Evans maintained his intellectual passion and focus even in his last years, his colleagues said. Evans finished correcting the proofs on his final work, a study of the lesser-known Elizabethan poet Robert Parry, about a month before his death, Tobin said. “For someone his age to continue to have done the work he did was inspiring,” Engell said. But Evans’ personality was just as remarkable, according to Engell, who added...
...electorate knows Olmert is no Ariel Sharon, and the question now is whether voters who were willing to break with their traditional party affiliations in order to support Sharon's new formation are ready to stay the course with a lesser leader, or retreat into their traditional political homes. It's likely that Kadima will shed support now to the traditional parties, but the outcome of an election that once looked drearily predictable is suddenly wide open...
...verisimilitude, combined with the knowledge that the depicted events are historical, make “Munich” an unsettling film to watch in its bloodier moments. Its battle sequences are expertly realized, but they are not presented for the viewers’ entertainment, as they would be in lesser films. Unfortunately, “Munich” also shares one of Cronenberg’s film’s weaknesses: it belabors the psychoanalytical connection between sex and violence. In one particularly egregious scene, Kauffman suffers from vivid flashbacks of the Munich massacre while making love to his wife...