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...Psych department may have finally one-upped the professorial trio of Summers, Sandel, and Friedman from 2005’s Social Analysis 76 “Globalization” by offering Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo.” The course’s professors—a one-two punch of Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and the Law School’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—will likely draw lots of students with their popularity (and the perennially popular Positive Psychology, Psychology of Leadership, and Human Sexuality...
DIED. Philip Rieff, 83, conservative sociologist and cultural theorist at the University of Pennsylvania best known for a trio of books on the destructive impact of Sigmund Freud; in Philadelphia. In January, Rieff published his last book, Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks--in which he cites legal abortion, the gay-rights movement and pop music as examples of cultural decline--and dedicated it to the memory of his first wife, essayist Susan Sontag...
...fromPittsburgh, Pa., could tap like a demon (he did a terrific trio with the Nicholas Brothers in The Pirate), but Kelly's real aspiration was to create a fully American form of dance: ballet with machismo. Compared with the slim, elegant Astaire, Kelly was Everyman, all man. And for a wonderful while, he did it all: sang, danced, acted, choreographed and directed. Singin' in the Rain is his masterpiece, but there's lots more to savor in Robert Trachtenberg's excellent...
...middle of March, as the invasion of Iraq directed the energies and focus of the Administration, CIA chiefs huddled in Langley. They simply had no context for either the trio in Bahrain or the ones in Saudi Arabia. The White House and CIA pressed officials in both countries with a single message. We're on the case. Just don't let these men go free. (See surprising assets on the CIA payroll...
...late March 2003, the CIA was in a jam. The Saudis were complaining that they couldn't hold prisoners without some evidence of wrongdoing. The trio directly connected to the Bahrainis, they could hold for only a few more weeks. The other trio, they had already released. They had nothing on them...