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Bill Irwin is an actor, choreographer, director, performance artist, playwright and clown. He won a MacArthur "genius award...
...March, the National Institutes of Health held the first major conference on mind-body research. "There is a major reason that many in biomedicine reject mind-body research: it is the pervasive sound of the popularizers," noted Dr. Robert Rose, executive director at the MacArthur Foundation's initiative on mind, brain, body and health research. "The loudest voices, the most passionate and articulate spokespersons for the power of the mind to heal come not from the research community but from the growing number of gurus ... the hawkers on TV for alternative treatments, herbs, homeopathy, handbooks." Rose distinguished the nostrum pushers...
Ashbery, the author of 20 books, is a Fulbright Scholar, a two-time Guggenheim Fellow and a MacArthur "genius" fellow. In 1975, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He is also a winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In January, he was named the New York state poet...
Geller, who won a MacArthur Fellowship, more commonly known as the "genius grant" in 1990 and was the first Harvard female professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences, was offered the unprecedented untenured chair due to a "personal issue," according to what Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said...
...liberals wanted Japan to have a liberal constitution as the basis of a real democracy. Conservative Japanese officials argued that such an arrangement would not be in tune with the real Japanese spirit. And they were backed in this belief by the most reactionary members of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's occupation administration, men who felt they were intimately acquainted with "the Oriental mind...