Education: The Most Happy Fellows

Winners of the MacArthur awards can work on what they please

"It's a miracle," cried Randall Forsberg, and so it seemed to be. A disarmament proponent, Forsberg was reacting last week to the news that she had just revived a gift out of the blue: $204,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which she can spend any way she likes. Forsberg was one of the framers of the plan to call for a nuclear arms freeze. Says she: "The award will permit me to be more productive in the various aspects of...

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