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...while Lakian and Romney may share anoccupation and an opposition to Kennedy, they arefar from two peas in the proverbial pod. Lakian ispro-choice, while Romney opposes abortion. And TheBoston Globe reported yesterday that a top Lakianaide tried to embarrass Romney by recruitingRomney former sister-in-law to campaign forLakian...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Election Season Hits Mass. | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

...growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein had also been Jung's mistress; Jung in turn surmised that Freud had become involved with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays. Both antagonists in this standoff held bombshells that could blow each other's reputation from Vienna to Zurich and back; both backed off, divided up the spoils of their joint investigations and retreated into opposing tents of theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assault on Freud | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...daughter of a highborn member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know exactly what is happening. It gathers mounting power in three scenes: the parliamentarian's downfall, a Hogarthian country wedding and the tentative, unhopeful first night of the bride, the groom and the social wall between them. Whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By George, a Worthy Rival | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...June on two prominent scientists with some association in the field of genetics. Charles Epstein, head of medical genetics at the University of California at San Francisco, lost several fingers when he opened a package at his home. And Yale computer scientist David Gelertner, whose brother and sister-in-law are Yale geneticists, was seriously injured by a similar bomb...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: False 'Mail Bomb' Brings Authorities To Holyoke Center | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

Last Thursday, Yale computer scientist David Gelertner, whose brother and sister-in-law are Yale geneticists, was seriously injured by a similar bomb...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Cops, FBI Warn Of Mail Bombs | 6/29/1993 | See Source »

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