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Despite official ostracism (he was not part of the math department, per se). Bernstein was able to gain a reputation-especially in the West-as one of the top young Soviet pure mathematicians. As Harvard Math Department Chairman David B. Mumford relates it, Bernstein was a student of a Russian mathematicians named I.M. Gelfand, who runs a series of weekly seminars world famous in advanced math circles. Bernstein, like Gelfand's other students, developed a broad facility that ranges "over almost the whole of mathematics," according to Mumford. That breadth-the likes of which is seldom seen in the West...
...razzle of its star and the dazzle of its effects. The musical is said to require a weekly gross of $275,000 merely to break even, a statistic that terrifies theater insiders. Still, Henning is one of Broadway's certified miracle workers. With a se ries of pans, The Magic Show ran 4? years. He could do it yet again. If he does, it will be the neatest trick of his brief but astonishing career. ?By Stefan Kanfer
...problems--perhaps with formal education per se--may be that Harvard takes a student to the point where he (or she) comprehends so many possibilities that persistence in a given enterprise may come to seem narrow," Mattson suggested...
...applied was arbitrary, and thus unconstitutional. Capital punishment, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was "freakishly imposed" on a "capriciously selected random handful" of murderers. However, in three simultaneous 1976 decisions, the court clarified its views on the subject, most significantly by declaring that the death penalty is not unconstitutional per se. Today all 37 states with capital punishment on the books have laws that were drafted specifically to conform with the court's latest strictures...
Kenyatta believes Black parents' concern for the overall quality of their children's education has been the real reason for past desegregation battles. "The issue for Black people has not been an issue of radical integration per se: it's been an issue of quality education," he says. "The reason we said let's go to the white schools is because we thought that's where the good education...