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Storming the Court By Brandt Goldstein Out Now Scribner...
...book, “Storming the Court,” attorney Brandt Goldstein skillfully weaves together two parallel narratives. The first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern...
...experimental designs—and how this evolution relates to culture.First approached by Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics Peter L. Galison ’77, Schmidgen received an invitation to teach at Harvard from chair of the History of Science Department, Allan M. Brandt.“If I was like a German actor, it would be like Hollywood called and asked me to do something here,” says Schmidgen, who himself comes from a prestigious institution in Germany. “Harvard’s History of Science Department is the best...
...gallery is evidence of a recent transition within the History of Science department, from merely studying texts to analyzing scientific tools themselves. “The Putnam gallery is much more than a collection of tools and a museum piece,” department chair Allan M. Brandt said. “It’s more of an active learning space.” With only thin glass cases separating visitors from the tools, the observer can closely analyze the pieces. “It’s great how the thin casings don’t pose very...
...government from the day he took office. Always aware of Germany's past and its responsibility to the future yet never losing sight of the social and economic challenges his country faces, Schröder has followed in the footsteps of the greatest statesman Germany ever had, Willy Brandt. Underestimated at home as well as abroad, Schröder legalized gay marriage, eased immigration laws, inaugurated an impressive (and long overdue) Holocaust memorial, made his country No. 1 in world exports, and opposed the war in Iraq. In my view, not a bad record at all for seven years...