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...week when Argentine-born Milstein, 57, and West German Köhler, 38, who is now at the Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland, were given the 1984 Nobel Prize for Medicine. They shared the award with Niels Jerne, 72, founding director of the Basel institute and a pioneer thinker in immunology...
Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, a student of Friedrich's, stated "[Friedrich was] a wonderfully inspiring teacher with a unique gift for stimulating and challenging his students; a major political thinker, whose work on totalitarianism has withstood the test of time...
Talk of boycotts recurred through the week, to the vexation of U.S. Head Coach Don Gambril, a positive thinker. The missing male swimmers probably would not have made much difference, give or take Soviet Distance Man Vladimir Salnikov. The East German women would have changed some results. But it was the 1980 boycott that had the most powerful effect on these '84 Games. Sixteen members of the present team had been set to swim in Moscow, and most of them would not still be around had they done so. Tracy Caulkins was a team star as long...
However accurate a scenario like this may be, the tone merely detracts from an otherwise sensible and perceptive view of the problems of contraceptives. An author and thinker like Greer does not need to grab our attention with passages like this one. At times, one wishes she were more cold and clinical, because the facts and analyses can generally stand on their...
...inflicted: the soldier in him got the better of the statesman; he did not know when to stop fighting and seek conciliation; he was too obsessed with his enemies, however real; he spent too much time defending turf and proclaiming his prerogatives; and he was sometimes a poor conceptual thinker...