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Kagan said the five additions will help compensate for the retirements of Professors Henry J. Steiner ’51 and Detlev F. Vagts ’48 last year...
...national anthem, was introduced to the crowd as being from New York (boos) and Boston (cheers). Yes, sports fans, that Suzyn Waldman-the one who has been, in recent years, in the employ of George Steinbrenner and his YES Network, the one who this season stepped in for Charlie Steiner in the radio booth when Charlie headed for Los Angeles to be Vin Scully?s sidekick. Here?s something to suck on, Yankee fans: In the 1980s and ?90s Waldman was a BLOHARD, her dues were always paid up. Her dog in 1985 was named Fenway. I?m betting that...
...theory was born out of the teachings of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Though he wasn't a grape grower or even a gardener, Steiner set forth guidelines for farming timed to the season as well as the zodiac. Close to homeopathy, biodynamics is hyper-organic stuff. The technique includes eight different steps, using materials from cow dung to chamomile flowers, and is difficult to learn without someone like Armenier coaching. The vineyard worker must watch the calendar and the sun and moonrise for the precise times to add various supplements to the soil...
...displayed, enjoyed for itself and continually polished and cared for--but one that you might just hock or sell off to pursue gaudier baubles. It is a statement of aesthetics and values and financial acumen. "It is a way to express your good taste," says Atlanta Realtor Heather Steiner, "and to show how much smarter you were than your peers...
...that chess is a monomania. You study it intensively day and night from childhood if you are going to rise to the ranks of the greats, and that kind of singular focus constricts your reality and makes you more vulnerable to distortions of it. "A chess genius," wrote George Steiner, "is a human being who focuses vast, little understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality." Plausible, perhaps, but there are lots of folks who are monomaniacal in other "trivial" spheres and who come...