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...Knowles on its scientific advisory board, tried to name itself “Veritas” when it was founded in 1989. Knowles, however, interceded and convinced the company of the “sensitivity, the horror, the absolute unacceptability” of appropriating the University’s motto. (The story of Vertex and its charismatic CEO Joshua Boger, as told in Barry Werth’s book The Billion Dollar Molecule, illustrates the special problems of making money in the biotech world.) In many other universities, however, the wholesale commercialization of the life sciences has been...
...military. The decisive repositioning of Pakistan by Musharraf won him a new reputation for deft statesmanship. In the 1971 war with India, the President had led commandos from the Special Services Group (SSG). Notes Nisar Sarwar, a retired colonel who attended the military academy with Musharraf, "The SSG motto is, 'Who Dares, Wins.' And he dares...
...even in times of peace, Americans have grown accustomed to invoking God?s name in everything from the motto on their currency ("In God we trust") to the saying at the start of every Supreme Court session ("God save the United States and this honorable Court"). Yet while the word God has become omnipresent in the nation?s ceremonial language, it should be noted that when the Founding Fathers were crafting the Constitution, the blueprint for a bold new nation, they left...
...class president our seventh grade year and his motto was ‘Never spit in a man’s face unless his moustache was on fire,’” Griffin says...
Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote the Roman poet Terence. This motto was lived out to the fullest degree by certain 19th century geniuses. Charles Dickens, with his insatiable interest in character and narrative, was one. In a more abstract way--music being an abstract art anyway--so was Beethoven, in his creation of equivalents for the human passions. And so, in the domain of the visual...