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Harvard professors garnered three of this year’s 25 MacArthur “genius grants,” the MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday. Developmental biologist Kevin C. Eggan, surgeon and writer Atul A. Gawande and cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga are among the diverse group of creative and promising fellows who will be granted $500,000 over the next five years. The MacArthur Foundation, an independent grant-making institution, closely guards the release of its recipient list. The professors were informed last week. “They made me swear on my children not to tell anyone but my wife...
...Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" and, in the early 50s, Johnny Standley's comedy homily "It's in the Book." But the 1965 "Like a Rolling Stone" was, I believe, the first epic rock ballad issued as a one-side, 6min. single. (Within two years, Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park and the Beatles' "Hey, Jude" went Dylan one minute longer, though not better...
...successful plaintiffs were among a vanguard group of 24 whose cases were heard by Jenkins as representative of the claims being made by relatives of 375 cancer victims. In the 14 other cases, the judge decided, atomic radiation was not clearly the cause of cancer. J. MacArthur Wright of St. George, Utah, an attorney who represented the victims, was pleased that Jenkins' decision establishes clear standards for litigating-or settling out of court-the remaining cases. "What I see as important," said Wright, "is that in all of the leukemia cases we tried, the court ruled...
...cynical repartee in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 comedy The Front Page zipped like the Super-Chief through a plot of political and journalistic malfeasance. When director Howard Hawks in 1940 changed ace reporter Hildy Johnson from man to woman, the story was also about another frantic combat: marriage. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the sparring partners in the fastest, nastiest farce Hollywood has ever made...
...show how history keeps repeating itself, when Truman was trying to decide what to do about MacArthur, he apparently sent somebody to the Library of Congress to get out the documents that had to do with Lincoln's problems with General George McClellan [during the Civil...