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...They called it a supra-nuclear palsy, and it was rare. Now, I thought, they could get down to fixing it, curing the sickness, making him better. I talked to Don. Got a diagnosis - great. But I saw that Don knew something dark about disease, this neurologic disease in particular. Keeping that dark thing as far in the back of his mind as he could, he looked it up: in the most recent textbooks, in the best journals, then in the not-so-hot journals. Through page on page, volume after volume, he grappled with the dark thing but couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Fancy Machines Can ? And Can't ? Do | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

...there’s l’affaire Shleifer (from which he recused himself). And his favoring some academic departments over others—have Harvard’s administrators ever preferred one branch of learning to another? For the answer, divide $250,000 by $85, vide supra. And his active participation on ad hoc committees. Didn’t he understand the use of the rubber stamp? And he locked horns with a dean, which is also, provided one steadfastly refuses to consult precedents, without precedent...

Author: By James R Russell | Title: O Captain! My Captain! | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...also Matter of a Subpoena Duces Tecum, ante 685, 687-688 (2006). Such purpose, however, "should not be used as a means of disregarding the considered judgment of the Legislature that the public right of access should be restricted in certain circumstances." Globe Newspaper Co. v. Boston Retirement Bd., supra. See Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp. v. Chief of Police of Worcester, 436 Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Supreme Judicial Court Opinion in Crimson v. Harvard | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

...global facility…subject to the interests and politics of a certain geographical jurisdiction willing to keep absolute control over Internet governance.” If only we would listen to the Solaymanis of the world. If only the Internet were controlled by the UN or some other supra-national and super-sovereign entity, then we could get wonderfully diverse opinions about Internet governance, and China could better censor websites that contain words such as “liberty” or “Tiananmen Square.” Luckily, the usual gang of anti-Americans didn?...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv, | Title: George WWW.Bush’s Internet | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

Gwyneth Paltrow is different. She has, in her genes, the supra-domestic glamour of the movie star her actress mother, Blythe Danner, should have been. The cultivated voice and confident posture suggest an easy regality. Her Oscar, for Shakespeare in Love, was a throwback: a reward for reminding Hollywood what star quality used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Review: Of Madmen, Movie Stars And Math | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

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