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...Jesse Jackson. Lord knows he has his flaws, and over the years I've had plenty to say about them. But when it comes to turning blacks out on Election Day, Jackson is the undisputed champion. Without him and the millions of black votes he helped deliver, says political scientist Ronald Walters of the University of Maryland, "we'd have been planning George W. Bush's Inauguration since Election...
...geneticists, landed him nowhere. Many firms shunned him precisely because he had gone abroad and returned to India. "They were suspicious," Dubey says. "They wondered, 'Unless there was something wrong with the guy, why would he come back?'" Girls didn't want to date the 30-year-old unemployed scientist either...
...insists she "debunked" fears that geese spread illnesses, such as the West Nile virus. She called up a scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and read studies about goose waste...
...late 1995, scientist Joseph Bonuso unveiled Solomon, a powerful computer program that could try cases, infallibly, without the need for juries. It ran testimony through polygraph analysis; it crunched legal algorithms on a team of supercomputers. Media from the San Francisco Chronicle to CNN covered Solomon, which had just done what a much criticized jury of humans had not. It had found O.J. Simpson guilty of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman...
...stories Schlesinger tells and the characters he recalls are vivid. After graduating from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called On the Frontier, the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger--Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively from...