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Seurat was the wayward child of impressionism. Renoir and Sisley might seek to catch life on the fly; he would aspire to stasis. Their voluptuous brushstrokes were too imprecise, too sensational for this artist-scientist. Seurat worked dot by meticulous dot, woodpeckering the canvas with pricks of color that would...
Watching a criminal being electrocuted might not seem like everyone's idea of a relaxing evening in front of the family room TV. Some among us might even call it barbaric. But we live in a barbaric society. An overwhelming majority of people in this country favor the death penalty...
"From a spectator's point of view," promises Harvard Coach Bruce Beall, "they'll never see any more exciting races."
Starr graduated summa cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University in 1970, where he was editor of the Daily Spectator, the university newspaper. He came to Harvard in 1975 as a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows and began teaching sociology as an assistant professor in 1978.
Opinion about CNN is divided among its major network rivals, which have run news stories about the trial but little of the explicit testimony. Says Executive Producer Steve Friedman of NBC's Today: "If you can broadcast hostages being taken, you can show these trials." ABC's Nightline...