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...most essential.Faust’s controversial predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, came under fire for, among other things, emphasizing science growth at the expense of other fields. Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn said that Summers “had hitched his wagon to the growth of the natural sciences.”A lot of money is at stake. More than half a billion dollars’ worth of new science buildings are nearing completion behind the Science Center, and billions more are slated to be spent for the planned science-heavy expansion into Allston...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: For Historian, A New Focus | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

...been through this a million times before, "I'll meet you at school." An alarmed policeman who spotted a rare white visitor walking in the project insisted that he drive her a block to her destination. "I'd rather do this now than take you out in a wagon later," the officer explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Raising Children in a Battle Zone | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...film (confessing his "mortal sins" to a Catholic priest) it's clear that his "trial" is neither balanced nor fair. The case for the prosecution is the only one made, the verdict is known at the start and the play ends with Blair being hustled into a paddy-wagon and dispatched to The Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair on Trial for Iraq? | 1/17/2007 | See Source »

...customs. But church officials also calculate that Romney's bid to succeed George W. Bush could remind some mainstream Christians just how different Mormonism is from their faith and perhaps expose their flock to more of the sort of discrimination that drove their founders west by handcart and covered wagon into the Great Salt Lake Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mormon as President? | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

DIED. Betty Comden, 89, sophisticated, witty wordsmith who, with rumpled collaborator Adolph Green, helped create stage musicals like On the Town, Bells Are Ringing and The Will Rogers Follies and wrote screenplays for such seminal MGM films as Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon; in New York City. Throughout a 60-year career, the pair, who were not married to each other, worked every day, mostly in the living room of Comden's Manhattan apartment, composing stories and lyrics for the likes of Leonard Bernstein and Jule Styne and seamlessly adapting them to music that ranged from bouncy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 4, 2006 | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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