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...these issues. Clinton and Connecticut Senator Lieberman, who lambasted Mortal Kombat, highlighted violent games more than a decade ago. But members feel the party has ignored these issues in recent years, allowing Republicans to seize the high ground on moral values. "I think they forget about it," says Barbara Whitehead, who heads the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University and has advised Democrats on some of these issues. Expect to hear more of these ideas from Democrats, particularly those affiliated with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, of which Clinton, Emanuel and Lincoln are all members. Michele Stockwell, a DLC staffer...
...case of the surrogate mother who reneged on turning over her baby [NATION, Sept. 22] would usually touch a soft spot in this middle-aged mother's heart But all it does is ruffle my feathers. Apparently, Mary Beth Whitehead's original intention when she offered to have the baby was to help a childless couple. Then she betrayed them after the child's birth. If she had misgivings, she should have expressed them sometime during the nine months of pregnancy. Florence Y. Lewis Ann Arbor, Mich...
...attended Swarthmore, MIT, and Rockefeller University. As a faculty member at MIT, he was founding director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research...
Five years ago, Malkin co-founded the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy—whose membership consists of about 150 CEOs of top companies internationally—with John C. Whitehead and actor Paul Newman. According to the committee’s website, the members’ companies have accounted for about 45 percent of reported corporate giving...
This is good news for Harvard and its researchers. The Broad Institute, composed of scientists from Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, is already poised to be a leading player in genetic research. With scientific programs devoted to genome sequencing and analysis, cancer, medical and population genetics, computational biology and bioinformatics, and chemical biology, the Institute will benefit enormously from new laws erasing ambiguities in state law over stem cell research. The support will be invaluable to the Institute’s work, and hopefully it will soon be receiving funding from the Massachusetts...