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...Scifipedia, an online biographical dictionary, defines Ackerman first as "American fan." That's good enough. As much as almost any writer in the field, he created a devoted, informed audience for speculative fiction. If he didn't coin the term "sci-fi" - Robert Heinlein used it first - then by using the phrase in public in 1954 he instantly popularized it (to the lasting chagrin of purists, who preferred "SF"). Forry, as everyone called him, was the genre's foremost advocate, missionary and ballyhooer. His love for the form, stretching back more than 80 years, godfathered and legitimized the obsessions...
...Robert N. Stavins, a Harvard Kennedy School professor and the director of the project, said that the reports create “architectures” for new agreements based on economic, scientific, and political considerations...
...stretch, and that’s what this game can really do for us.” So when the puck drops at 7 p.m. tonight at the Bright, Harvard is determined to ensure that the perfect record at home remains that way. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...vacated Senate seat in 1962—one he has held ever since. Soon thereafter, the freshman senator and his family were subjected to tragedy after tragedy—Ted’s own steadfastness a reassurance to a nation shaken by the assassinations of his brothers John and Robert. Indeed, Kennedy has come to be defined by his perseverance. Through scandal, personal loss and political disappointment, he had become unmistakably the most prominent American voice for affordable health care and one of the most influential figures in Washington, D.C. by last February. It was then he decided?...
...getting a Secretary of State who battled him to the bitter end of a Democratic primary season focused largely on the question of who was better equipped to be Commander in Chief. In bringing in retired Marine general James Jones as his National Security Adviser and retaining Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Obama is turning to two men who might have seemed more obvious choices had John McCain won the White House. And all three were on the opposite side from Obama on the defining foreign policy decision of the past decade: whether to invade Iraq...