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Clark, who is Harman Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development, and Wilson, who is a lecturer at the Kennedy School, were recently selected by Kennedy School Dean Albert Carnesale and other faculty members...
Rubens, perhaps the greatest name in seventeenth century Flemish art, worked primarily in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp. During the Protestant Reformation, Antwerp was torn apart by fierce religious battles. Only when the devout Catholic Spanish archdukes Albert and Isabella were installed there as governors in 1599 was hope restored to the city. Thereafter, Antwerp experienced a brief renewed Golden Age in business and the arts, and Rubens played an instrumental role. As Albert's and Isabella's court painter, he led an artistic propaganda campaign to proclaim Catholic dominance in the area. Assisted by his students and colleagues, Rubens...
Still, they were worth looking for, if only to prove they weren't there, and Princeton astronomer Bohdan Paczynski had proposed an ingenious way to conduct the search. Albert Einstein showed in his general theory of relativity that the gravity from a star will bend rays of light that pass nearby. In principle, he said, a star could act as a lens, focusing and brightening the light of another star directly behind it. If a cloud of small stars or big planets really is orbiting the Milky Way, some of them should occasionally pass in front of stars...
...Then it is not the work of the just man to harm either a friend or anyone else, Albert, but of his opposite, the unjust...
...ALBERT In my opinion, Dan, what you say is entirely correct...