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Brilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former...
...million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. That's a lot of greenhouse gas. But you won't find him on the hit list of environmental crusaders. The CEO of Cinergy, a utility with nine coal-fired plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, Rogers is an outspoken advocate of regulating carbon and imposing a price on emissions. His position makes him a renegade within his industry, which officially opposes any regulatory scheme that would force power companies to cut carbon emissions. It makes Rogers more likely to be invited to Sierra Club headquarters than to the White...
...most comfortable with,” says Haddock. Other members of the Harvard community are less openly ready to accept transgendered students. They aren’t necessarily critical; they simply haven’t taken a stand.Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, often noted for his outspoken views on gender, has yet to take a position, but perhaps out of more practical concerns. “As things are, I’m in enough controversy right now,” he writes in an e-mail.But manly professors aren’t the only ones...
...handling of the war on terror. “If you want to fight terrorism, I think you need friends,” McGovern said. “It is statistically impossible to be hated any more” in the Muslim world, he said. One of the most outspoken members of the House, McGovern was the first to put forward a bill proposing to block tax money from funding the war in Iraq. McGovern also spoke at length about his frustration with the duplicity of politicians in Washington. “My definition of patriotism is to say what...
...didn’t want me to be gay. He wrote me a letter when I was a freshman at Columbia that said that he wouldn’t have been proud of Tchaikovsky [who was homosexual] if he was his son.”An outspoken critic of Israeli policy, Kushner has been subject to criticism from pro-Israel groups, especially in light of what some see as an unsympathetic portrayal of Israeli governmental assassins in “Munich.”When a questioner asked Kushner about his stance on Israel, the audience that laughed along with...