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...patient, detail-oriented man, LaHaye can transform complex biblical passages into a map showing what he believes to be the very battle plans for the last world war, beginning with the massing of the Antichrist's armies in northern Israel and ending with Christ's ascent on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. Jenkins skillfully filters the outlines that LaHaye provides through the adventures of heroes Rayford Steele, a pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, who starts out Left Behind as a 30-year-old virgin and senior writer for TIME's fictional competitor Global Weekly. Their mission is to help...
DIED. J. CARTER BROWN, 67, patrician populist who, as head of Washington's National Gallery of Art, helped transform America's museums from dusty vaults to extravagant showplaces for the masses; of multiple myeloma; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure, Brown boosted federal funding for the gallery and repositioned it as a rival of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He pioneered the phenomenon of the blockbuster exhibition with such shows as King Tut and Andrew Wyeth's "Helga" series...
...sure, such a lavish tribute seems wholly inappropriate for a ruthless killer who made his living through hijacking, racketeering, extortion and drugs. Yet the virtual lionization of underworld figures is nothing new. During the 1920s, America’s mass media helped transform certain groups of brutal outlaws—namely, ethnic Irish and Italian hoods that operated within highly structured criminal syndicates—into pop culture icons. For many impoverished European immigrants, the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger-like tales of powerful mobsters such as Big Jim Colosimo and the infamous Al Capone seemed to epitomize the American...
Summers promoted the theme in nearly every speech he gave this year and, at the highest levels of his administration, plans are being made to transform Harvard and the Boston area into what he called a “Silicon Valley East”—the biomedical equivalent of California’s successful tech sector...
Harvard is a strange place to learn to change the world. The University is very good, of course, at training students to transform the universe of science and scholarship. But in the course of four years, we learn very little that prepares us to take on the real world, the nasty world that doesn’t care about theorems or the snows of yesteryear. Why, then, are Harvard students so often told that they must be the leaders of tomorrow, that they must gather briefly on the banks of the Charles and then depart to serve better their country...