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Warbury Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith called Bailey a "great pillar of the Harvard community...
...discovered, however, that I was speaking a different tongue than the one in which University administrators converse. I called President Rudenstine, hoping to learn how the pillar of the administration perceives his own relationship with students. (I called the President because Neil does not have an e-mail address listed, rendering him one step more difficult to reach than anyone else at this University.) His assistant listened to me politely--then he directed me to the press office. Luckily, Alex, the press secretary, told me that Neil is not only "a very available presence on campus" and that he "takes...
...increasing Western acceptance of alternative medicine has been reflected in a variety of institutional changes. In 1992, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a pillar of the American biomedical research establishment, established an Office for Alternative Medicine (OAM). With an annual operating budget in 1997 of over 12 million dollars, the OAM provides a significant amount of research funding each year specifically for studies on alternative medicine. OAM also hosts international conferences to bring together researchers and scientists to further our understanding of alternative medicine...
...what of Henri Paul, the chauffeur so loaded with alcohol that his vision may have been blurred as he smashed into the Alma tunnel's 13th pillar? Sancton and MacLeod reveal Paul's history of daredevil stunts in passenger planes, and how his final stunt was to drink whiskey-strength aperitifs -- right under the noses of Dodi Fayed's bodyguards. Another irony: Mohammed Al-Fayed, in his first post-crash interview, tells Sancton and MacLeod how he begged Dodi not to go from the rear of the hotel with a substitute driver. Dodi didn't heed Mohammed's advice...
...surface, Taylor Branch's Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (Simon & Schuster; 746 pages; $30) keeps to the high ground. The moral and legal victories of the civil rights movement leave reasonable Americans feeling hopeful and good about themselves. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent confrontations continue to reassure the fearful suburbs. The bushwhacked Medgar Evers and the murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner become martyrs for an inspiring cause. We Shall Overcome is a crossover...