Word: wrighting
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Former Boston University Professor of History David D. Hall '58 will help expand the masters and doctoral programs in Unitarian Universalist Studies at the Div School, filling the gap left by the 1987 retirement of Professor C. Conrad Wright...
Because the state code is unclear with respect to the rights of clubs such as the Fly Club, those who argue that they should be opened to women bear a heavy burden of proof, according to legal experts. As Judith K. Wright, spokesperson for MCAD, says, "It's all based on precedent...
Soviet and foreign analysts disagree on whether ethnic turmoil or economic failure is the greater threat to Gorbachev. There is no doubt, though, that the peril is real. "Even after this week," observed former British Ambassador to Washington Sir Oliver Wright, "the odds are against him." A Soviet political scientist in Moscow, Yevgeni Ambartsumov, is equally grim. "The threat of economic collapse exists," he says. "Things are getting worse...
...with puns, sly allusions and In jokes: when the fragmentary writing on one of Picasso's paintings from 1912 declares that "Notre Avenir est dans l'air ((Our Future is in the air))," one remembers that the two men liked to wear mechanics' clothes and compare themselves to the Wright brothers, who had given flying shows in Paris in 1908, and that Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbourg" -- Wilbur.) It is difficult, subtle, cerebral and on the whole quite unspectacular art, brimming with an inventiveness that, simply because it has become so embedded in our very conception of modernity...
Many medical and legal experts fear that the ruling, if upheld, could slow in-vitro research and intensify the national abortion debate. "A bad decision," says Ellen Wright Clayton, a specialist in law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. The judge could simply have weighed the respective interests of each spouse, Clayton contends, and decided to award the eggs to Mrs. Davis without going on to say when life begins...