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...access to, the fellow undergraduates that I knew, plus opportunities to participate in track and field and in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, all contributed to my overall experiences,” he writes in an e-mail. Returning as a Junior Fellow in 1959, Wilson was unsatisfied with the weakness of theoretical physics at Harvard.He received a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1961, and joined the physics faculty at Cornell University in 1963.“I accepted the [job] offer because Cornell was a good university, was out in the country and was reputed to have...
When a horse does get hurt, it's nice to have a repair shop like the Widener Hospital on hand. As would any doctor, one of the first things surgeon Dean Richardson did when Barbaro arrived was feel his patient's pulse--in several spots along the injured leg. Weak pulses or a cold foot would have meant that blood-vessel injury had occurred and the limb was lost. "He had good, strong pulses, and his foot was warm," says Richardson. "I was thrilled...
...some men in Kilo Company apparently snap? Perhaps because of the stress of fighting a violent and unpopular war--or because their commanders failed them. Military psychiatrists who have studied what makes a soldier's moral compass go haywire in battle look first for a weak chain of command. That was a factor in the March 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. soldiers, including members of an Army platoon led by Lieut. William Calley, killed some 500 Vietnamese. Says a retired Army Green Beret colonel who fought in Vietnam: "Somebody has failed to say, 'No, that...
...teachers, weak Christians and nonobservant Jews, make a show of teaching virtue and righteous self-restraint, but their shifty eyes and hollow voices betray their lack of belief. They are paid to say these things, by the city of New Prospect and the state of New Jersey. They lack true faith; they are not on the Straight Path; they are unclean. Ahmad and the two thousand other students can see them scuttling after school into their cars on the crackling, trash-speckled parking lot like pale crabs or dark ones restored to their shells, and they are men and women...
...much of the film, Ofelia's fairy-tale quest is secondary to the power vectors at work in the house. Tensions bubble between the Captain and Ofelia's weak mother, and especially the Captain and the housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verd?). These are two marvelous characters. She has a quiet ferocity to match her cunning, which makes her a splendid revolutionary heroine. He is the real monster of the story, with a sadism bred in him by his own soldier father, and a macho theatricality that makes him a great movie villain. López (who has played memorably creepy types...