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...both, if by vastly different means. For voters the choices resolved themselves into something deeply psychological: hope vs. fear, opportunity vs. peril, a plunge into a risky future or an overhasty abandoning of the familiar, go-it-alone past. Was it wise to put faith in the dream of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Labor leader Shimon Peres, who promised a New Middle East crafted of compromise, or to heed the warnings of Netanyahu, who spoke the word fear 11 times in the candidates' 30-min. debate to remind voters that Israel must first defeat the terror still stalking their streets...
ELIE WIESEL Author and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Don't be worried. There is something called the wisdom of the people, and we must have faith in it. A Jewish wise man once said, "Trust the people, for they may not be prophets, but they are the children of prophets." History is irreversible. Think about tomorrow. There will be negotiations. During the campaign, Netanyahu spoke like Peres; Peres spoke like Netanyahu. So don't worry. It will...
What would women pay to be impregnated, by remote control or even after the donor's death, by the world's smartest physicist or most talented violinist or most accomplished adventurer? That isn't so preposterous as it may sound. A few years back, William Shockley, Nobel-prizewinning co-inventor of the transistor, attracted ridicule by making a deposit in a sperm bank that accepted donations only from men with high IQs. But with biological immortality as a lure, more of the world's most accomplished men--or, failing that, a bunch of rock stars and politicians--might be only...
...talent and a survival-of-the-fittest environment, where competition and natural selection would weed out the weak and where the strong would rise to the top--the products of a rigorous distillation of ability into a narrowly-defined conception of achievement. Harvard was great because of its Nobel laureates and its alumni heads of state, because it filled corporate boardrooms and seats in Congress. Its dominance of this type of accomplishment seemed enchanted. Good people came to Harvard to be challenged and proven against the mettle of the very best and to ride away into the world redeemed...
...version of the Harvard myth lies in its Nobel Laureates. The other, in its people...