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Marina is the glamorous and gorgeous daughter of the eminent liberal journalist Murray Thwaite, whose overweening intelligence and charisma keep her in the thrall of an Electra-like adulation of her father. Since her graduation from Brown, she has been wallowing in an abortive effort to finish her book on “how complex and profound cultural truths—our mores entire—could be derived from” the evolution of children’s fashion. The project—like its author—is silly and self-indulgent, a perfect example of the frivolity...
...idea of a bunch of my kids running all over the place was kind of sweet.” With no financial responsibility to these children, it made perfect sense.Not all Harvard students are so gung-ho about spreading their seed. Secretary of Harvard Right to Life Justin S. Murray ’07, speaking on his own behalf, calls the practice immoral, especially when combined with in vitro fertilization. “This reeks of eugenics,” says Murray, who says that “designing your baby...creates an atmosphere in which the baby will only...
...power is absolutely there to, if not solve the problem, at least reduce the inequalities.” “The Gates Foundation has become the most significant supporter of research on pretty much all aspects of global health,” said Christopher Murray, director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health. Murray, who is also the Saltonstall professor of population policy, received $18.8 million from the Gates Foundation last year to research new ways to measure health status in developing countries. Edwards said that funding from charitable organizations has helped to promote research, including...
CORRECTION: The print and original online versions of this article incorrectly stated that Richard was the first female vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In fact, Dame Rosemary Murray was the first woman to hold the post...
...boisterous camaraderie, hearty and heartless, the film virtually created the modern concept of hipness. It kept surfacing in the overdog comedy of National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live and David Letterman and Spy magazine, in the stoned bravado of Bill and Ted and Beavis and Butt-head. (The Bill Murray persona, of blithe sarcasm and weary soldiering-on, could have been invented by Altman; it's a shame the two men never made a film together.) Amid the triage of Korea - read: Vietnam - Altman's super-cool medics found fraternity in cool, cruel...