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...English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that watching Edmund Kean, the great tragedian of the London stage 200 years ago, was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." That's how we like our great moments in history to be, surrounded by drama, attended by heroes. By those standards, the process that led to the signing of the Treaty of Rome 50 years ago was almost ineffably mundane - a series of long meetings of forgotten bureaucrats in rooms foul with tobacco smoke. No blood was shed, few memorable speeches made; the heroes were those who could cajole a compromise into...
...This imaginatively titled tour-de-force pairs a reverent black bluesman—clumsy contradiction or clever irony, you decide—with a white nymphomaniac. Naturally, the bluesman (played by Samuel L. Jackson and named Lazarus, which is almost too much for me to handle) tries to cure her. It was only a matter of time until someone made this movie...
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...under copyright.“My hair was dark brown before I started working on it with the Google people,” the white-haired political scientist told his peers.—Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
Charity Hospital is at the center of the financial dispute. Last week Dr. Samuel Parry, a plastic surgeon who had taught as a full professor at Tulane for 12 years, brought a class action charging that the university has systematically withheld fees earned by Tulane faculty members at Charity Hospital. Marrogi's suspicions about Gerber began over Charity billings--and compensation. "I started looking at what he was giving us, and I knew it was impossible," says Marrogi. One department memo claimed Marrogi had billed $9,000 to Charity over a year. But Marrogi had filed 1,100 lab reports...