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DIED. EUGENE LANDY, 71, psychologist-guru who treated the depressed, drug-addled Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson with a controversial round-the-clock form of therapy that spurred the musician's comeback in the early '80s; in Honolulu. In 1989 Landy surrendered his license for two years after a state board found him grossly negligent for conduct including improperly prescribing drugs for Wilson. After the settlement of a suit against him by Wilson's family, Landy was barred from contacting the rocker, who often insisted that Landy "saved my life...
JEFFREY SACHS Enemy of poverty, friend of Bono, he wrote the book on how to help the world's poor. I nominate biologist Edward O. Wilson, who has uncovered hidden laws of biology, charted the interconnections of knowledge, plumbed the sources of human nature and held a lantern aloft to warn the world of the risks of man-made environmental catastrophe. If humankind finds a way to live in peace together, in harmony with nature, he will have played a unique role in that deliverance...
...relying on a combination of strong starting pitching and home run power, surged to a 4-1 victory in the opener and won 8-2 in the nightcap. “We knew the season, regardless of what we were doing before, started today,” sophomore Steffan Wilson said. “We needed two [wins]. We’d been struggling a little bit down in Florida. You can’t ever depend on two, but that was the goal and it feels great to get it from a team that we split with last year...
...national ideology. In Pennsylvania, which has an active bloc of Catholic voters, Casey is an opponent of abortion rights. That same position cost his father, then the Governor, a speaking spot at the 1992 Democratic Convention. For what could be two close races against female Republican incumbents--Heather Wilson in New Mexico and Deborah Pryce in Ohio--Emanuel found women challengers. Former NFL quarterback Heath Schuler has added star power to the race in a North Carolina district. Incumbent Charles Taylor is on the defense there with claims that an electronic glitch prevented him from casting his vote against...
...Slaughter is the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University...