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...opening of a spirited gathering in Dallas last week that often felt more like a tent revival than the rump caucus of a denomination sometimes known as "God's frozen people," Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh Robert Duncan wished Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, "the wisdom of Solomon." Williams, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, will preside this week over a meeting in London that may decide the future of the denomination in the U.S. and around the world, so he can certainly use the good wishes. But what gave Duncan's salutation its special bite was that...
Along with Harvard, researchers from the University of Kansas also received NIH chemical library development funds. The two universities join the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University as institutions with NIH funded CMLD centers...
...took a bullet for the First Amendment. I don’t think that going to jail would discourage me. He’s already prosecuting one industry member now in Pittsburgh, the first federal obscenity prosecution in ten years. Ashcroft has assembled a 25-man task force to pursue these obscenity cases. But a prosecutor can have all the fantasies he wants to about prosecuting pornography. You’ve got to have a consensus of 12 jurors or you’re not getting anywhere. Ashcroft is a Jesus freak from the Bible belt...
Grand Buffet would be fairly easy to dismiss if they hailed from anywhere other than Pittsburgh. After all, non sequitur rapping over cheesy beats is often the province of poseurs and hipsters, but the duo’s humble Rust Belt origins attest to a refreshingly earnest approach. On their third independently-released album, the lyrical gimmicks are nothing if not inventive—especially when rapping about early-bird buffet beatdowns on “The Old Folk Smashers.” Though neither Grape-a-Don nor Lord Grunge can turn a phrase as deftly...
...Other cities and states already are. Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago are well on their way to building cross-sector alliances to boost local higher education. Though less well-endowed than Boston, these cities reveal a more advanced understanding of the pay-off from thriving universities. States like Colorado, Ohio, Michigan and Arizona have created so-called “university-business-state road maps” to maximize the potential of in-state research institutions. Massachusetts has not. Others are coming after our students, our faculty and our research dollars. When will we wake...