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...finals, which took place last Wednesday, April 1, featured a “particularly difficult set of problems this year,” according to Gabby M. Silberman, the Program Director of the Centers for Advanced Studies...
...alleged lack of investigative curiosity. The nine-member panel is co-chaired by a Democrat, former Senator Charles Robb, and includes at least one proven maverick, Senator John McCain, who was put there, according to an official, to provide "instant credibility." But retired U.S. appellate court Judge Laurence Silberman, the panel co-chair, is a Nixon-era friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's and Vice President Dick Cheney's. Panel member Henry Rowen, a Hoover Institution scholar and former Rand Corp. president, worked under Cheney at the Pentagon during the first Gulf War. In September 1990, with Cheney...
...Washington, Kagan encountered such ideological battles when she clerked for the liberal Judge Abner Mikva on the D.C. Circuit, who clashed regularly with the leading conservative Circuit Judge Lawrence Silberman...
...technological progress. Instead of perpetuating a false dichotomy, we must find the solutions for our future in a shared approach to developing sustainable practices. The West will truly be won when we see renewable energy, reduced use of toxic chemicals and meaningful efforts toward land and resource conservation. KATIE SILBERMAN Center for Environmental Health Oakland, Calif...
This led, Silberman suggests, to "movements of desperation where people harked back to a purity of faith and looked for signs of messianic redemption." The city's dominant religious authorities, skewered in the Gospels, were the Sadducees, who made up most of the Temple elite, and the Pharisees, respected for their ongoing explorations of the correct interpretation of religious law. But the city also played host to groups like the Zealots, a militant nationalist group, and the Essenes. The Essenes detested the Temple priests, lived in monastic communities and may have been authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the treasure...