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Have we been too hard on foreign despots? Inside of what appears to be a heartless tyrant like MUAMMAR GADDAFI is there really a sensitive thinker and environmentalist struggling to get out? Pierre Salinger thinks so. J.F.K.'s former press secretary has written the introduction to Gaddafi's first published work of fiction, just arrived in translation in the U.S. Cheerily titled Escape to Hell and Other Stories, Gaddafi's book mostly covers things that chafe him, including football, rock music and especially cities: "Flee from the lethargy and waste, the poison and boredom and yawning. Flee from the nightmare...
...Wall Street rocket scientists and putting it into the hands of consumers or even inexperienced bankers is hardly a riskless activity. "Banks have been making less and less money from traditional lines of business," says Douglas Gale, an economics professor at New York University who is considered a leading thinker about next-generation finance. "What they have found lucrative is designing derivatives. But if you're using derivatives and you don't understand the technology or you don't know what you're doing, there is a real danger here. It's like letting a child play with a nuclear...
...bizarre twist in what is already one of the most tangled tales in the history of antitrust. Lessig, 36, a Harvard professor of law, is primarily a constitutional, rather than an antitrust, expert. Nevertheless, he is widely recognized as a leading thinker on how to adapt ancient legal principles to the new digital age. When the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act last year, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor repeatedly cited his article "Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace" in her separate opinion. He has written famously about the "tyranny of code," how seemingly insignificant details of software design...
...educational system aimed at training a future generation of Chilean communists according to Marxist rules. Our parents would not have been able to bring up their children according to their own principles and convictions. Without Pinochet, I would not be a Catholic, a believer in democracy or the free thinker that I am today. M. CRISTINA VALENZUELA DE DOMIC Sao Paulo...
Mansfield, who is Kenan Professor ofGovernment, began his remarks by calling Connerly"a great black thinker" and lauded him forstanding up for his views. "The greatest blackthinkers have always disagreed," he said...