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...Monday, a federal judge decided that Harvey - and other convicted felons - have a constitutional right to DNA testing. In a fiery 13-page ruling, District Judge Albert Bryan wrote that Fairfax County prosecutor Robert Horan violated Harvey's civil rights when he refused to allow testing on DNA evidence collected for Harvey's trial. "Denying the plaintiff access to potentially exculpatory evidence would result in... a miscarriage of justice," Bryan wrote. If it stands, Bryan's ruling could have staggering repercussions on national criminal law; defense attorneys have long argued that defendants be entitled to post-trial DNA testing, particularly...
Person of the Week LAST LAUGH More than 70 years ago, Albert Einstein calculated a force in the universe that works opposite to gravity: instead of pulling objects together, it pushes them apart. The idea was so wild he later refuted it, but Hubble telescope images of an exploding star have proven him right...
...Albert Einstein never did like the idea of antigravity. It wasn't that he had a problem with farfetched notions. After all, his special and general relativity theories made the astonishing assertion that time, space and matter could be squeezed and stretched like so much India rubber. The trouble was that some sort of antigravity force--Einstein called it the "cosmological term"--was required to make the predictions of general relativity match what astronomers believed the actual universe looked like. And that extra term marred the mathematical elegance of his beloved equations. The great physicist was hugely relieved when...
DIED. "BROTHER" THEODORE GOTTLEIB, 94, deadpan performer of what he called "stand-up tragedy"; in Manhattan. In wartime Europe, Gottleib was carted to Dachau but used his family's money to buy his freedom from the Nazis and was assisted to California by Albert Einstein, reputedly his mother's boyfriend. A sort of West Coast Will Hunting, Gottleib worked as a janitor at Stanford, where he simultaneously beat 30 professors at chess. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s waned, he resurfaced on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s...
...Harvard Crimson, Albert Einstein’s head is pasted onto the emaciated, half-naked body on an anonymous woman in a cartoon by a Maxim “artist” presenting his ideal Harvard president. Free exchange of ideas...