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Discovery has received funding from Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., an ultraconservative savings-and-loan heir. While it does a wide variety of public-policy research (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave Discovery $9.35 million, for example, to come up with new transportation ideas for the Pacific Northwest), it is best known as a major center of research and advocacy...
...Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education Howard E. Gardner ’65 suggested that Summers—in keeping with his high-profile post—should have phrased his remarks more sensitively. “President Summers was absolutely within the pale of normal academic discourse,” Gardner wrote in an e-mail. But, Gardner added, “if he wanted to make these remarks publicly, it would pay him to run them by some colleagues—including people like me—to reduce the chance that he would be misunderstood...
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...Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education Howard E. Gardner ’65 suggested that Summers—in keeping with his high-profile post—should have phrased his remarks more sensitively. “President Summers was absolutely within the pale of normal academic discourse,” Gardner wrote in an e-mail. But, Gardner added, “if he wanted to make these remarks publicly, it would pay him to run them by some colleagues—including people like me—to reduce the chance that he would be misunderstood...
Carpenter, from the first generation of film-school babies, was fusing two favorite old movies: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, with Sheriff John Wayne and his ragtag deputies holding off a jail raid, and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, in which the zombies attack a house in a cemetery and just keep on coming. He also laced his movie with references to Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Sergio Leone movies. As he did in his next film, the horror hit Halloween, Carpenter broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year...