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Twenty of the poets are black, including relatively familiar figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and Jupiter Hammon. Others are more surprising: Francis Williams, a free black from Jamaica who studied at Cambridge University in the early 1700s; George White, a former slave from Virginia who only learned to...
On Feb. 8, 1953, the Cricks had Wilkins and Watson to lunch, and the Cavendish scientists learned several things. First, it was O.K. with Wilkins if they proceeded with their model building (a good thing, since they had already started and had no intention of stopping now). More important, they...
Well, not me, necessarily. We had a very strong department by then. I admit that I'd learned the practice from Sal Luria, my own adviser, of not putting my name on my student's papers. That means the students feel they're working for themselves, not for someone else...
I went there to study at the Academy of Music, and that Brahms concert was on one of my first days there. After I enrolled in school, I started going to rehearsals of the Vienna Philharmonic. I learned by looking at the great conductors firsthand and by studying at the...
But Mindanao's Islamic rebels now seem to be after more than a home alone. TIME has learned that elements of these same separatist movements have become a nexus for Southeast Asian terrorists and are providing a training ground for operatives linked to Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the al-Qaeda-linked...