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...talk could be something of a taboo. "Bring up faith and there's always a little sense of, Didn't you get the memo?" At least once a month he receives an e-mail from some lonely post-doc asking advice on being an evangelical scientist. As his renown grew, he moved from sharing his Christian conversion with groups of fellow believers to sitting on public panels where, he says, "I've found myself the sole person saying faith was relevant" to science. Thus, he adds, "I've kind of been writing this book for 25 years...
...energy company; while free on a $5 million bond as he awaited his October sentencing; of heart disease; in Aspen, Colo. Born to a poor family in rural Missouri, Lay became a friend to Presidents (George W. Bush famously nicknamed him "Kenny Boy") and a Wall Street darling whose renown grew in step with Enron's soaring stock price. But the emergence in 2001 of the truth about Enron and its scandalous business practices ruined that reputation--although Lay maintained his innocence to the end. Legal experts say his death vacates his conviction, since he cannot take part...
...sense of drama and ability to remain en pointe for seemingly minutes on end won her wide acclaim (and the cover of TIME). Later, when she was in her 40s, she found new life and a new lover with young Rudolf Nureyev. But her story was gaudier than her renown: the stuff of affairs, abortions, gunrunning for her Panamanian husband, an old age stripped of wealth, burial in a pauper's grave. Tony Palmer's thrilling 2005 documentary brims with pertinent clips and lurid gossip. It captures a dancer's life at its most rarefied and rapacious...
...Beside him as he worked was a 29-year-old photographer, Dora Maar, herself an artist of some renown and a member of the Surrealist group. She and the 55-year-old Picasso had met 18 months earlier and become lovers; but they also met as artists. "You feel," says the director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Gerard Vaughan, "that of all the women in his life, Picasso treated her as an intellectual equal." There was collaboration and cross-pollination as Picasso absorbed and experimented with Maar's photographic techniques and she embraced painting
...hands of two Harvard veterans—Bok, 76, was president for two decades, and Knowles, 71, led FAS for 11 years.During his tenure as dean, Knowles stressed fiscal discipline and placed increasing emphasis on growing the size of the Faculty. The Oxford-educated scientist is also renowned for his dry wit—which, even after 33 years at Harvard, Knowles still delivers in a refined British accent.Accepting Bok’s appointment in a letter to colleagues on Monday, Knowles began: “In the light of his own generous decision, it was, of course, impossible...