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Harvard's two nominees for this year's Carnegie fellowships were not considered during the national selection process because the Office of Career Services (OCS) did not submit the applications on time, Director of OCS William Wright-Swadel said in an interview yesterday...
...ROBERT WRIGHT is accustomed to thinking of the human mind as an intricate machine. He has long been fascinated with evolutionary psychology--a field that views the brain as a mechanism built by the genes and shaped by natural selection--and has written extensively about it, both in his 1994 book, The Moral Animal, and in a TIME cover story last August, "Twentieth Century Blues." In this week's cover story, contributor Wright examines the philosophical questions raised by "artificial intelligences" such as Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer that nearly defeated the human world champion, Garry Kasparov. In addition...
Some have questioned my insight into Southern history. Perhaps they need to become familiar with works such as Richard Wright's Black Boy or Martin Luther King's Why We Can't Wait. Or perhaps they should view documentaries of the civil rights movement such as "Eyes on the Prize." These visual records illustrate Dixie's depravity and demonstrate the rebel flag's racist connotations--in the turbulent '50s and '60s, no good segregationist was seen without the stars and bars, which was frequently emblazoned on a vest or embroidered on a Ku Klux Klan robe...
...second-round contest between Memphis and Syracuse will feature the two most overlooked big men in the country--Lorenzen Wright and John Wallace. If Memphis stays focused and disciplined, its talent should take that squad to the regional final...
...high-profile result of weeks of tricky behind-the-scenes negotiations. A key meeting, TIME has learned, occurred two weeks ago at Al Gore's vice-presidential residence. The private dinner was attended by top executives from the Big Three networks--ABC's Robert Iger, NBC's Robert Wright and CBS's Peter Lund--along with Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the ratings for movies. The session was intended to get industry negotiations back on track after Murdoch had pre-empted the other networks by announcing that Fox would develop a ratings...