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...introducing Galbraith, Clinton told the audience that upon meeting him, one notices his wit and intellect only second and third--the first thing that stands out is Galbraith's height...
...boss character in "Miller's Crossing." The same was true, in the end, for Chile's General Augusto Pinochet. While the mass torture and killing of opponents that accompanied his seizure of power in the coup of 1973 was very real, the immunity from prosecution he'd awarded himself upon stepping down in 1990 was sustained only by an illusion of power. And that illusion was finally shattered Tuesday when Chile's Supreme Court stripped the former dictator of his immunity, opening the way for Pinochet to face some 157 different cases of murder, kidnapping and torture...
Similarly, we have found that our mere presence as Harvard affiliates is often expected to add legitimacy to an event. For example, upon arriving at a July 4 concert for the Irish Embassy in Dublin, we were greeted with a host of photographers who--after realizing that we were Harvard students--maneuvered us into their "perfect picture": Harvard students clad in white tie and tails, holding an American flag, welcoming the U.S. Ambassador. Even Ambassador Michael Sullivan commented that he had never looked so good in a picture...
...haven't found a simple answer to this question, but I have come upon some satisfaction in the discovery that the field of neurogenetics is not as pat as I had feared. BPAD and schizophrenia are both marked by multifactorial genetic inheritance; they are not the results of basic Mendelian transmission. This means that there is a whole host of genes that is involved in the development of either disorder. What lends neurogenetics its literally mind-boggling puzzles are questions addressing possible interactions of these genes: Do the additive effects of a number of genes create the phenotypic spectrum...
Written and directed by James L. Toback '66 and loosely based upon his own experiences at Harvard College, the film involves the undoing of a star Harvard basketball player, played by the luscious Brazilian Adrian Grenier. According to Toback, Grenier will be the "the new pin-up man for both the gay and straight population. He's incredibly talented and just stunning...