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...Inferiority complex," a much abused term, is Adlerian. Freud did not regret losing Adler, but Jung was something else. Freud was aware that most of his acolytes were Jews, and he did not want to turn psychoanalysis into a "Jewish science." Jung, a Swiss from a pious Protestant background, struck Freud as his logical successor, his "crown prince." The two men were close for several years, but Jung's ambition, and his growing commitment to religion and mysticism--most unwelcome to Freud, an aggressive atheist--finally drove them apart...
...body that helps Netscape, Microsoft and anyone else agree on openly published protocols rather than hold one another back with proprietary technology. The rest of the world may be trying to cash in on the Web's phenomenal growth, but Berners-Lee is content to labor quietly in the background, ensuring that all of us can continue, well into the next century, to Enquire Within Upon Anything...
...American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover cosmic background radiation, which bolsters the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe...
...want Harvard always to be a place wheretalented young musicians and leading musicscholars can flourish and where people who have nomusical background can be exposed to the field,"he said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette...
After Bemif Professor of International Law Detlev F. Vagts '48-'49 provided background information on the cases, Story Professor of Law Arthur T. von Mehren '42-'43 praised the idea of class action suits...