Spring 2004 Bulletin

The Spring 2004 Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences is now available online in Adobe PDF format. If you are unable to open the file, please download a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader at Adobe.com. Printed copies of the Bulletin are still available. Please send requests to publications@amacad.org.

This issue contains the following features:

1. Calendar of Events



2. Academy News:

- Academy Sponsors Joint Meeting with the Cambridge Public Library; Ambassador Peter Galbraith Speaks on Iraq

3. Stated Meeting Program

- Beethoven and His Royal Disciple
Lewis Lockwood

- What's the Point of Democracy?
Amartya Sen

- Are There Limits To Our Cosmic Arrogance?
Michael S. Turner

- In Memory of Robert K. Merton
Robert C. Merton and Robert M. Solow

- "Have You No Sense of Decency?"
McCarthyism 50 Years Later
Nathan Glazer, Anthony Lewis, and Sam Tanenhaus

4. Project Update

- Academy Sponsors Humanities Research

5. Around the Country



6. Forthcoming Academy Publications



7. Noteworthy



8. Eulogy on General George Washington

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