Word: wright
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...letter to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, Speaker Tip O'Neill described Gingrich's remarks as "the lowest thing that I've ever seen in my 32 years in Congress." Gingrich gained his reputation as a giant killer in 1987, when he brought the ethics charges against Speaker Jim Wright that led to Wright's resignation two years later. That positioned Gingrich for his successful 1989 run for minority whip, despite the fact that the House Republican leadership supported the more moderate Edward Madigan of Illinois...
...author of both the cover story and the book has become TIME's newest contributor. He is Robert Wright, a senior editor of the New Republic and a writer who specializes in the human side of science. Wright designed The Moral Animal as an introduction to the new field of evolutionary psychology, the study of the genetic basis of human emotion and thought. "The everyday feelings that guide us through our lives are the products of evolution -- among them are guilt, compassion, envy, love, lust, our sense of justice," he says. If that sounds like a prescription for predetermination, even...
Says senior editor Charles Alexander, who will be working with Wright: "Bob is a rare writer -- a scholar who surveys materials intended for professionals and then makes the information accessible to the general reader, adding his own perceptive interpretations. He can cover a lot of different areas in a really vivid, readable style." We look forward to hearing more from Wright as he analyzes developments in an exciting era in science...
...tried to keep out of it," Wright says. "We have an agreement with Governor Weld...
...Wright says she won't comment on the politics of the project...