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...paid research partnership program allows female students to apply for semester-or year-long research projects in conjunction with Faculty members or fellows at the Bunting Institute, the Murray Research Center and the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute. This year, 32 projects were launched, with 48 students already participating...
Your cover story on Buddhism was a colossal disappointment. You treated the subject as just another cult, a Church of Scientology or a Heaven's Gate. Would you refer to the Pope as Sophia Loren's confessor or hold up Barbra Streisand as a shining example of Judaism? MURRAY SILVER JR. Atlanta...
...White House last week dumped its second load of videotapes of Bill Clinton schmoozing potential donors. Watching them is a bit like sitting through Groundhog Day, the movie in which Bill Murray keeps repeating the same 24 hours of his life. In almost any segment, you see the President entering a room or in a receiving line. Now he charms, now he mixes, now he makes small talk ("Nice tie!"). At some point he may accept a token of appreciation, like a lucky rock or a ceremonial dagger. He delivers some cheerleaderish remarks and shakes every hand that looks capable...
...Republicans rated her favorably in a recent poll. Her veto of a partial-birth-abortion ban alienated many conservatives in this highly Roman Catholic state. The Christian Coalition plans to distribute 1 million election guides reminding voters of her stance. The beneficiary of alienated conservatives may be Libertarian candidate Murray Sabrin, who is targeting right-to-life voters...
Wright does a fine job of explaining the opening chapters of my new book, Should You Leave?, especially the sections that deal with the solutions to marital discord proposed by the mid-century psychiatrist Murray Bowen. Bowen favored an "autonomous" posture with the qualities Wright mentions: cerebral detachment, an American "inner directedness." What Wright does not say is that I spend the rest of the book questioning the ideal of autonomy. For most people, a desirable relationship contains passion, mutuality, obligation, unselfconsciousness--the opposite of detachment. Autonomy--independence--is our premier national value, but it can make for strange bedfellows...