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...downtown Little Rock, and the only place I could find to eat was a hotel with a Valentine Day’s special menu and roses on every table,” said Stewart, who graduated from the Law School in 1976 and is a former front-page editor of The Wall Street Journal...
...only intention is to help rectify the illegalities of Samsung, which wields omnipotent influence throughout our society.' KIM YONG CHUL, former Samsung lawyer, on his recent allegations of bribery and corruption against the Korean company. Samsung issued a 25-page rebuttal denying all his accusations...
Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks knows all this - and too much else besides, to attempt any glib definitions. On the first page of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he writes that music "has no concepts, makes no propositions; it lacks images, symbols, the stuff of language. It has no power of representation. It has no necessary relation to the world." His book is ostensibly just a survey of research and case histories of patients whose inner lives have been fundamentally changed by music. Yet in revealing the exquisite complexity of the ways in which our minds are attuned...
...Middleton (1580-1627) may finally win the reputation he deserves. On Nov. 22, Oxford University Press publishes Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, the first time all his plays, poems and manuscripts have appeared in a single volume. The timing of this 2,016-page monument couldn't be better. Academic interest in Middleton has burgeoned since the 1900s as scholars have discovered that the more time passes, the more relevant his work becomes. "When you read Middleton, you get the sense that the world he wrote about is the world we live in now, with all the moral dilemmas...
...kind of education relating to religion. But he has kept that part of the general academic discussion.” Gomes’ support of gay rights also played a role in his selection, Sears added. After a now-defunct conservative Harvard student publication, the Peninsula, ran a 56-page issue in 1991 on the evils of homosexuality, Gomes announced that he was gay. “Reverend Gomes came out and identified himself for the first time as being gay, and that took a lot of courage,” Sears said. “And we think...