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...doctor in the Royal Navy before crossing the pond to study in Brooklyn. He finally settled at Harvard in 1958, when he assumed leadership of the department. MacMahon retired from academia in 1989, soon after he stepped down as chair of epidemiology. He died after suffering complications from a stroke. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, who succeeded MacMahon as head of the epidemiology department, praised MacMahon’s scientific accomplishments, as well as his personal strengths. “Brian MacMahon was one of the greatest men in contemporary science,” he said, “not only in terms...
...Iraq docs No End in Sight and Body of War and Michael Moore's Sicko) and distinguished achievement in production design (Jack Fisk, There Will Be Blood, L.A.) . Gee, you're wondering, did The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the French story of a man totally immobilized by a stroke, beat out the German spy drama The Lives of Others? (Three out of five critics groups say yes.) If you're getting restless, movie lovers, too bad. You'll be hearing the same obscure names at the Golden Globes and on Oscar night...
Mostly, we wouldn't have it any other way. Which does not, perhaps, bode particularly well for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or The Savages, both of which take mortality seriously. In the former a successful man in his prime is struck down by a massive stroke. It leaves him able only to blink a single eye. And the capacity to conduct interior monologues with himself. In the latter, a cranky old crock named Lenny (Philip Bosco) surrenders to senile dementia, leaving his self-absorbed and obscurely damaged children, Wendy and Jon (Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman...
...anonymous phone calls. Even the seriously flawed 2006 Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act only punishes only those spammers who send e-mails “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.” There is no precedent for a broad stroke against hurting people’s feelings on a social network...
...pulse beats hardest in the maze-like Old Quarter, a collection of 50 streets and alleys, each named for its primary goods, such as silk on Hang Gai and silver on Hang Bac. Art houses sell communist-era propaganda reproduced on posters, canvas and mugs, and galleries offer stroke-perfect replicas of famous paintings for as little...