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...economics with Stephen Marglin and politics with Nathan Glazer; he has heard Dean Rosovsky's reflections on the Core Curriculum and President Horner's views on women's education. In all, he's hosted more than 50 of Harvard's senior faculty members and administrators. The dinner series-- a brainchild which Mitchell instituted shortly after he left college--has not always been so extravagant. In the early days it was held in Mitchell's Mass Ave apartment and the evening was entirely casual. "It started out really tacky and studenty," recalls Richard Linowes, a Business School student who has been...
...Helms-Hyde bill is the brainchild of Washington Lawyer Stephen Galebach. A former editor of the Harvard Law Review, Galebach presented a difficult challenge. For almost two centuries, defining individual rights has been the exclusive province of the Supreme Court. Galebach had to find a way to give Congress a say in that process. The answer...
...scientific" form, creationism is the brainchild of Christian fundamentalists all across the U.S. Over the past 15 months fundamentalist groups have persuaded legislators in 14 states to introduce laws requiring creationist views in science classes; none has passed. During a presidential campaign swing through Texas, Ronald Reagan was asked his view on the teaching of evolution. His answer (an almost verbatim quotation of positions taken by the Moral Majority and the Rev. Jerry Falwell): "It is a scientific theory only, and it is not believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed...
...while the 1975 Lou Adler movie has sprouted a phenomenon in the United States, the original stage version has quietly hummed along in London since it opened in 1973. This month, Richard O'Brien's brainchild--he wrote the script, music and lyrics, and starred in the movie--began a nationwide U.S. tour with a two-week engagement at the Harvard Square. The Boston cadre of Rocky Horror fans seems to be greeting it with the respect and appreciation due the first draft of a recognized masterpiece--but not with the unmitigated love and devotion they display for the film...
...meetings are the brainchild of a Johns Hopkins University chemistry professor, the late Neil Gordon, who was dissatisfied with the standard ways of transmitting scientific information: either through learned journals or at conferences organized strictly for academic or industrial chemists. Gordon wanted a small group of scientists to meet in a secluded and relaxed setting that would foster a free give and take. The first meeting in 1931 was a simple summer seminar open to Hopkins faculty and students, but the concept grew quickly. There are now about 100 Gordon conferences a year attended by more than 12,000 scientists...