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...concluded that Nazi Germany was never going to build its own. So he quit his job with the Manhattan Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then, in 1955, Rotblat joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and six other scientists in signing a manifesto that led to the founding of the annual Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which have lobbied ever since to convince governments that, in Rotblat's own words, "the genie can be put back in the bottle...
...Sunday evening before its return to New York. The LCJO is the 17-piece touring orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the jazz program founded four years ago as a department of Lincoln Center. Under the artistic direction of Marsalis and aided by the insights of Stanley Crouch and Albert Murray, Jazz at Lincoln Center has become the most comprehensive jazz program of its kind with a year-round series of lectures, films, concerts and tours. Marsalis's role has expanded recently to include conductor and music director of the LCJO, and his charismatic presence was as much a part...
Earlier in the day the prime minister, along with two of his cabinet members, met with Harvard Provost Albert Carnesale to discuss university education and possible student exchange programs with Harvard...
...Albert Belle and Tony Pena, with two swings of their bats, brought the Curse of the Bambino crashing down on Fenway. And by the end of the series the Red Sox had another number to haunt them at night--13--thirteen straight post-season losses, dating back to games six and seven of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets...
...more of the same," says Albert F. Gordon '59, a major University donor. "It's a tight little inner club of socially prominent people like Stone...who run the place. What Harvard needs is some serious examination of such areas as faculty retirement...