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...aspect of war that hit particularly hard was the effect conflicts have on children. A special report, "Children of War," elicited 636 letters, most of them praising the story. Wrote one reader: "Seldom have I seen such compelling and articulate work...
Legal procedures in a democratic society are not ends in themselves, but are legitimated only by the justice of the substantive results they render. Legal procedures are seldom if ever truly sufficient to rectify past wrongs, especially when blood has been shed. But when the sanctions associated with these legal procedures offer no meaningful promise of deterring individuals from future wrongs, they become a mockery of the ideal of justice rather than the best that justice can provide under less than ideal circumstances. The probability that Sharon will remain in the Israeli Cabinet, and that the furor over the Commission...
...makes it possible for him to win the primary obstacle run by appealing to a broad cross section of voters. "The interesting question is whether it's possible to have a charismatic moderate," says his press secretary, Greg Schneiders, a former Carter aide. Interesting indeed, since charisma is seldom listed among Glenn's considerable qualities as a candidate. Glenn's campaign could be affected by the release this October of the film version of Tom Wolfe's book on the space program, The Right Stuff. The portrayal of Glenn (by actor Ed Harris) might either deflate...
...Lincoln was assassinated and died (1946) a year after Hiroshima. The author of Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography knew him only during the last 20 years of his life. But Sue Davidson Lowe is his grandniece and thus was privy, as she grew up, to glimpses of an artist that outsiders seldom saw. He was Uncle Al to her, an old gent who liked chocolate ice cream cones and miniature golf, and who used summers at the Stieglitz family compound in Lake George, N.Y., to relax and flirt innocently with young female relatives. She knew him as a character before she bumped...
...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, says the Harvard chairman-includes a wide variety of topics; d modules, mathematical physics, representation of lie groups, and algebraic theory of partial differential equations...