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...model will enable scientists to "learn the specific about AIDS infection that will help [them] to develop treatment," according to Dr. Ritth M. Ruprecht, associate professor of medicine at the Medical School and senior author of a paper describing the model...
...Getting this fellowship has made a big difference in my career," said future fellow Dr. Ruth M. Ruprecht, a Harvard Medical School instructor who will spend next year researching cures forleukemia. "It's a major plus to be able toconcentrate on doing research rather than lookingfor sources of funding," she said...
Caricature, Not Character. For all his crimes, Messkirch is a sympathetic character. Not so the chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get into Hitler's good graces. A cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind...
Fielding is more at home with caricature, in which he at times brilliantly conveys what he calls the "innocent malevolence of the Nordic mind." In prison, Ruprecht's brother Alfried is tortured with exquisite science. His torturers, wearing rubber gloves, use surgical instruments to make delicate incisions about his body, taking care not to injure his face. "The cell," Alfried marvels, "was pervaded by a sense of conviction similar to that which fills a hospital theater during a prolonged and difficult operation." But he also notices with dismay that the chief torturer always has cuts on his face from...
...doctoral thesis in social science on agriculture in the Tyrol. But when the way was legally cleared for his return to his homeland for the first time in 44 years, Austria's long-established coalition government trembled last week. For the mustached Herr Doktor is Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz, Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne...