Word: matthew
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...Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, is no stranger to controversy...
...prolonged procedure is not kind to front runners. Mondale, the fastest out of the gate, has been the first to run into difficulties. "Mondale is suffering front-runner blight," says Wisconsin Democratic Chairman Matthew Flynn. "There are very high expectations for him, and when he stumbles a bit the criticism seems to echo." After slipping slightly in public opinion surveys and being topped by Cranston in a June straw poll of party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most...
...odds with the fundamental principle that a state may provide no financial support whatsoever to promote religion." Indeed, after the decision was announced, public school educators and teachers' unions charged that the decision could lead to the draining of funds from an already strapped state educational system. Said Matthew Stark, executive director of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, which had tried to overturn the statute: "The public school system has been the great socializer. It's one of the few common meeting grounds in America. The Supreme Court decision is threatening the very existence of that system...
...continued to read his brief airport address in the clear, strong voice of a onetime actor, John Paul evoked Christ's words in Matthew 25:36 ("I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me") to express his personal concern for those detained under martial law. "I myself am not able to visit all the sick, the imprisoned, the suffering, but I ask them to be close to me in spirit," he said. Later, in what struck many listeners as a reference to the fact that he had been asked...
...chemical warfare. The alleged weapon: "yellow rain," a lethal spray of poisons. The Soviets have denied the charge, and a United Nations panel was unable to confirm it. Now, to the considerable embarrassment of U.S. officials, a group of respected scientists has offered a new theory. Said Harvard Biochemist Matthew Meselson last week at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "There is good evidence that yellow rain is bee excrement...