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...began his career as a child. The son of Maya archaeologists George and Gene Stuart, he made his first trip to Maya ruins at the age of three, and by 1984, at 18, was so skilled at deciphering glyphs that he became the youngest recipient ever of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Stuart's next project is nothing less than cataloging every known Maya inscription, a task he guesses could take him the rest of his life. "There is at least another century of work; it will go on long after I'm gone," he says...
Last year, another Harvard philosopher, Stanley L. Cavell '56, also won the MacArthur fellowship...
...Harvard faculty members, a moral and political philosopher and a physician who studies poverty, were recently honored for their creativity with MacArthur Foundation "genius" awards...
Meier, like Sontag, has won a five-year fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
Only forty years ago, a president fired a five-star general because he did not obey executive orders in a reasonable amount of time. Yes, MacArthur was involved with actual troop movements, but years for closing bases and months for integrating gays are certainly unreasonable amounts of time. Clinton doesn't have to sack the Joint Chiefs, but he shouldn't have to put up with gridlock in a branch of government he controls...