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...choice, too). It's a shame that something so trivial as lighting should at all stand in the way of education here at Harvard. Come on librarians, Mr. FAS (whoever you are), Derek Bok or whoever else, let's find an economical way to provide better lighting. Jeffrey R. Stern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: En`light'enment at Harvard | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

...neither prove God nor disprove him, whether he be Einstein's Old One, the architect of the cosmos, or Michelangelo's stern anthropomorphic censor of our morals. Many of us, including clerics of all faiths, think it unlikely that an all-wise creator would choose for himself the male form of a primate so close genetically to a chimpanzee that some taxonomists would include the pair in the same genus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Dissent, Dogma and Darwin's Dog | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...want to organize a religion club in extracurricular time, the school should get out of the way." Many parents and educators believe the distinction is not so evident. "In many cases, student religious groups want the sanction of the school and a captive audience to preach to," argues Marc Stern, one of Westside's lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Prayers in The Schoolhouse? | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...Francis McGuane III that struggle began at the age of ten when a disagreement with a boyhood chum over the description of a sunset ended in a fistfight. "It was my first literary skirmish," he says. Born and raised in Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOM MCGUANE: He's Left No Stone Unturned | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...themselves that there is nothing entirely new under the sun and perhaps even to find clues to the future. The current upheavals in Eastern Europe have inspired comparisons to another revolutionary year in European history. In recent weeks former presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Columbia University historian Fritz Stern, and editorial writers in the New York Times and Boston Globe have drawn parallels between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: In Europe, History Repeats Itself | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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