Word: stephen
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Disagreeing with Wilson on just about everything having to do with heredity versus environment is Stephen Jay Gould, Agassiz professor of zoology. Gould, another Harvard science hotshot, often teaches a Core science course...
...dissenting from today's ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy called the decision "censorship pure and simple," and a "serious departure" from existing law on commercial speech. TIME's Adam Cohen says the ruling cuts against the trend of High Court rulings deregulating advertising. Also significant, Cohen reports that new Justice Stephen Breyer sided with the majority. "It suggests that, contrary to the popular view, he's not a reliable liberal vote on issues like this...
...definitely not the best way to meet women, but hey, it works. Among the many letters Oklahoma City bombing suspect TIMOTHY MCVEIGH has received are three or four marriage proposals. "I suspect most are from women who want fame or to write a book," says McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, "but some want to look after him." He says McVeigh has also received Bibles and crucifixes, "and one of them was quite nice...
...fine scores Alan Menken has composed for Disney animated features (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin), this is the most complex and rhapsodic, full of swelling passages that are artfully complemented by the Disney artists' imagery of pristine streams and forests. Menken's lyricist, Stephen Schwartz of Broadway's Godspell and Pippin, has a poetic righteousness that deftly avoids propaganda. Colors of the Wind -- among the loveliest ballads composed for a Disney cartoon, and sung to fierce perfection by Judy Kuhn -- ends with the admonition, "You can own the earth, and still/ All you'll own is earth...
...Starr obtained a federal indictment against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, accusing him of submitting a false loan application and of conspiring to defraud the irs in connection with a complex cable-TV deal. Tucker denied any wrongdoing. In a separate development, the counsel obtained a guilty plea from Stephen Smith, a former Clinton gubernatorial aide, for conspiring to misapply loan funds. Neither the Tucker charges nor the Smith plea implicate either the President or Hillary Rodham Clinton...