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...earned a doctorate in economics at Harvard, taught at Minnesota, Northwestern and the University of California at Berkeley. He married an American, joined the U.S. Navy and in 1944 took U.S. citizenship...
...player ever to appear in the World Series, and racked up a career batting average of .311 in 13 seasons (his best year: 1930, when he hit a torrid .379); after a long illness; in Chicago. After retiring as a player, Lindstrom spent 13 years as baseball coach at Northwestern University...
...that the power to create implies the power to regulate and even abolish. Moreover, the Constitution awards the Supreme Court complete appellate jurisdiction, "with such exceptions, and under such regulations as Congress shall make." Experts disagree on the import of this little-exercised grant of authority. Some agree with Northwestern Law Professor Martin Redish that "if Congress truly desires, it can do almost anything it wants to the jurisdiction of the lower courts or the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court." Many other experts, among them Cardozo Law School Professor Telford Taylor, argue that Congress cannot possess any power that...
...classifies the Eblaite tongue as most akin to the Mesopotamian languages of Old Akkadian and Amorite, and thus distant from Hebrew, believes that the discoveries at Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further. He contends that Eblaite is more directly tied to Hebrew than to Ugaritic...
...that the official warning was based on inconclusive evidence. Dr. Henry Rosett of Boston University School of Medicine notes that many obstetricians believe that small amounts of alcohol are harmless and relaxing, and they allow pregnant patients a glass of wine with the evening meal. Dr. Joe Simpson of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago worries about instilling guilt in women who take an occasional drink: "Even if the studies are correct, it need not follow that every woman who had a drink and miscarried or had a baby with a problem did so because of alcohol. But women...