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...watchers to be a skilled and experienced administrator. "In some ways he is the most capable guy they have," says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's longtime adviser on Soviet affairs. Andropov is also believed to be something of an intellectual, with an interest in rare books and modern art. This did not deter him, however, from dispatching bulldozers to roll over and destroy a 1974 unofficial exhibition of modern painting in Moscow...
...years, scientists and educators have been seeking a biological basis for these perceived differences between the sexes. The latest finding is reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Neurologist Daniel B. Hier and Internist William F. Crowley gave intelligence tests to 19 men with a rare disorder that inhibits the pubertal surge of male hormones, androgens. The subjects scored lower than normal males on tests of spatial ability, the capacity to visualize and mentally manipulate objects in space. Girls usually score lower than boys on tests of this skill, which is considered to be important...
...They were friendly observers who very much liked the 24-state nation they saw, despite the rawness of its manners and the crassness of its mercantilism. ("More money-there in two words you have the American character," Beaumont wrote home.) Tocqueville instinctively feared democratic excesses, but he had a rare gift for standing aside from his prejudices. When the two volumes of his Democracy in America appeared in 1835 and 1840, they were bestsellers in France, then roiled by its own democratic currents, and the work is still the clearest view of the U.S. ever written by a foreigner...
Herman suggests changing the way incest is perceived as the first step towards making many needed reforms. Incest laws should alter the rules of procedure, she says, since eyewitness are obviously rare. Abused children usually remain under their father's roof (and power) while the father is being tried. Mothers and daughters, estranged in incestuous families, must be re-united. Therapists must recognize the cultural taboos surrounding incest and develop new methods of treating victims...
Radical economists are rare in the Harvard Economics Department, and, with the noted exception of Marglin, only mainstream economics occupies a permanent place on the top floor of Littauer Marglin's own appointment was in many ways, a fluke Wild speculation has accompanied the story of his tenure. "I have been accused or admired, depending on your point of view, of having been a closet radical all those years, and just waiting until I got tenure to show my true colors." Marglin says. "I wish I could claim such foresight, but the reality is more prosaic...