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Members of the Tribe has its awkwardnesses. The long courtroom section, which might be a novel in itself, requires a new narrator, Adler's daughter. A concluding chapter introduces a contemporary Adler descendant who hastily ties the book to the present. The author makes no pronouncements about why Christian tribalism periodically festers with hatred of Jews. He merely holds to his story of an American Jew who believed, despite agonizing evidence to the contrary, that this hatred was an aberration, and not a basic part of his country's character. Kluger's novel makes this point with...
...more than $2 million a year to the city government--half a million more than Harvard pays to the City of Cambridge. The University claims that the current payments to Boston arose out of Harvard's concern about the city's financial condition. But the members of the Boston chapter of Massachusetts Fair Share who came to the Yard last week claim that Harvard's payments are minimal. Fair Share researchers say Harvard would pay $13.5 million to the city if it were not tax-exempt. Fair Share does not argue with the University's tax-exempt status, but claims...
...Special Day is not always equal to the gifts of its star, but it is an elegantly designed film that offers original insights into a historical chapter that has already been examined exhaustively by such Italian directors as Wertmuller, Bertolucci and Visconti. Essentially a two-character drama, the movie is set on the May day in 1938 when all of Rome turned out to rally for Hitler. Loren and her most durable costar, Marcello Mastroianni, play the only tenants of a cavernous apartment building who remain at home during the festivities. Antonietta, an ignorant working-class housewife, has stayed behind...
MICHAEL ROGERS WAS there, well, almost from the beginning. He struggled through genetics textbooks while other journalists read UPI releases. He stayed awake during all-night meetings while government health officials snored in their seats. And every so often he sent off to Rolling Stone the latest chapter in the developing story of recombinant...
These caricatures of generally responsible opponents leave Rogers little time to consider the more basic issues raised by the DNA debate. Throughout the controversy it has been the DNA researchers themselves who decided how and whether the research should continue. Only in the last chapter of the book does Rogers tackle the ethical problems surrounding the goals and methods of the decision-making process to date...