Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Ted wrote asking for money. David sent $1,000 in October. Two months later, Thomas Mosser, a New Jersey advertising executive, was killed by a device the Unabomber had mailed from San Francisco. In February 1995, David sent Ted $2,000 more. Two months after that, Gilbert Murray, a timber-industry lobbyist, was killed by a mail bomb at his office in Sacramento, California. Ted never paid back the loans...
...Jersey First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary to lead the team that will prosecute Kaczynski, the hot speculation was over whether the initial prosecution would take place in Cleary's state, where the Unabomber murdered advertising executive Thomas Mosser in 1994, or in California, where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed in 1995. Prosecutors could seek the death penalty in either case...
...October 1991, Sullivan has kept it roiling with controversy, running such cover stories as a 1994 attack on Clinton's health-care plan by Betsy McCaughey (which many credit with turning the political tide against the plan) and a lengthy excerpt from The Bell Curve, the book by Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein, linking IQ with race. Last week, after 4 1/2 years at the helm, Sullivan resigned as editor and found himself at the center of another controversy. The question: Did he quit, or was he fired...
...UNFORTUNATE THAT A REPORT inspired by the chess-playing program of Deep Blue did not even bother to name IBM's Murray Campbell and Thomas Anantharaman, the scientists who were the program's authors. Artificial intelligence's other technical leaders were similarly ignored. When machines do think, it will be the scientists, not the showmen, who deserve the credit. MATTHEW GINSBERG Eugene, Oregon...
...never been confronted with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe.' Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to ... the atheism of distraction, people who are just 'too damn busy' to worry about God at all." --April...