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...tough years ahead. But voters in many Western democracies, Ireland included, have a tendency to shy away from politicians who are far more intelligent than themselves. Adlai Stevenson was one of the best examples of this. As for any politician completely understanding the global financial mess, well, sadly Einstein is not on any ballot. Robert Liffey, DUBLIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Election Day Glitches | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

Born on Aug. 21, 1915, Furman studied engineering at Princeton; he remembered seeing Albert Einstein walk across campus. After graduating in 1937, Furman was called up by the Army Reserve in December 1940. Assigned to the quartermaster corps construction division, he supervised day-to-day operations in the building of the Pentagon (left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Furman | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...black and white, shadow and light, and the crisp, clean, solid lines that lend the prints their clarity and poignant definition. It is this element that crystallizes the personalities of the subjects in the eyes of the beholder. Eisenhower, Castro, Khrushchev, Kennedy, Bogart, Loren, Karloff, Hepburn, Auden, Hemingway, Shaw, Einstein, Cousteau, Keller, Ernst, Picasso, and O’Keefe all fill the walls with their ineffable essence. Karsh’s big break came in 1941, with the iconic photo he took of Winston Churchill during one of the former Prime Minister’s visits to Canada. Churchill gazes...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Portraits by Yousef Karsh Shine at the MFA | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

What's A Parent To Do? Brain scientists tend to be reluctant to make the leap from the laboratory to real-life, hard-core teenagers. Some feel a little burned by the way earlier neurological discoveries resulted in Baby Einstein tapes and other marketing schemes that misapplied their science. It is clear, however, that there are implications in the new research for parents, educators and lawmakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Teens Tick | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...convinced Larry Summers to not only venerate Einstein, but also Edison,” Venky said. “This was a visible commitment by Harvard that engineering had come...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEAS Celebrates First Year | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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