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Brian MacMahon, who served as chair of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health for 31 years, died last Wednesday. He was 84. MacMahon’s colleagues described him as one of the most influential men in modern epidemiology. James H. Ware, the current academic dean of the...
They might have carried off the scam, but Darwin, an avid outdoorsman, was, "going stir crazy" trapped in the house, she said. In 2004, the Mirror reported, the couple decided to move abroad. Darwin obtained a passport under the name of John Jones, and traveled to Cyprus and Gibraltar before...
As quickly as Fleet Street could dub Darwin Canoe Man (Kayak Man doesn't have quite the same ring) Darwin's tale began to leak. Medical experts noted that Darwin's symptoms didn't square with those normally manifested by amnesia victims. But the thread that untangled the story was...
The first is context. Kennedy was in the last weeks of a general election campaign. Romney has yet to be tested in a single primary. Kennedy gave his speech after an assembly of 150 anti-Catholic clergy issued a 2,000-word manifesto stating that no Catholic President could really...
The second crucial difference is demographic. By 1960 there were 35 to 40 million Catholics in the U.S., strategically settled in a dozen swing states from the Northeast across the Midwest. Those voters had in many cases gone for Eisenhower. Kennedy wanted to bring them home to the Democrats. Playing...