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...nation’s anger at President Carter, its confidence in Reagan, its unhappiness about the economy, its growing conservatism, its resurgent Republicanism. Whether few or all of these interpretations prove correct, the commentary has undoubtedly heartened many of the voters who elected Reagan, who voted Senators George McGovern and Birch Bayh out of office, who passed proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts, who elected Alfonse D’Amato to the Senate from New York. They wanted their votes to add up to a “mandate,” and it looks like that?...
...idiosyncrasies, such as his unapologetic ego. “I’m old, sick, weak, and intellectually perfect,” his son J. Alan Galbraith ’63 remembered him saying in response to a question about his health shortly before his death. George S. McGovern, a former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, described Galbraith’s division of “egotistical people” into two camps, one that used their ego to cover their inadequacies, and one that was “genuinely superior,” into which category he placed himself...
...genetic code, Leder has also made breakthrough contributions to oncology, including the creation and patenting of OncoMouse, a genetically modified mouse designed for cancer research. “His early work helped him establish himself,” said Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Philip A. Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leder’s research eventually focused on cloning and efforts to isolate genes and describe their structure and sequence, Sharp says. Leder counts among his researchers current Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, according to Sharp. “He developed a great...
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...welcome alternative to the permanent ICC. Compared to the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which are often criticized for the glacial pace of their prosecutions, "the court in Freetown is progressing faster, for less money and in a more focused way," says Mike McGovern, West Africa project director for the Brussels-based research and lobby group International Crisis Group. "The perception is that they're harder-working." With Taylor now in its hands, the coming months will surely be even busier...