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Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit and paleontologist by profession, co-discoverer of the "Peking Man." He wrote extensively throughout his life and his theology is based on a vision of the cosmic evolution of man proceeding from the alpha point--base matter--to the omega point--the union...
Stein, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, first gained attention in the economics profession at age 28 by winning a $25,000 prize from the Pabst Brewing Co. for the best essay on how the U.S. could achieve full employment after World War II (he recommended retraining...
...journalism can't take criticism, we might as well close shop." Assistant Managing Editor Ben Bagdikian of the Washington Post, whose critique of the paper in the Columbia Journalism Review eventually led the Post to hire him, feels the review concept has "made it possible for professionals to talk about the press in a critical way without pussyfooting. These reviews have taken a look at sacred cows-sacred cows were all over the newsroom leaving what cows usually do-and have challenged the conventional wisdom of news selection." As the new reviews gain in stature and maturity, Bagdikian feels...
Superior Man. "He was really a freak in this profession," reflected one of Steiner's old Biafra mates recently in Nairobi. "As a kind of self-appointed messiah, he thought he had a mission to fight for African underdogs. The runaway scholar of divinity was seeing himself as a...
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark contends that the Sixth Amendment guarantee of the right to counsel gives lawyers full freedom to criticize the judiciary; James Shellow of Milwaukee, secretary of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, asserts that the Erdmann affair "will further support those in the judiciary...