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...Harvard Law School in 1978, Sunstein clerked for Thurgood Marshall and later became a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he befriended Obama. Last year he left the University of Chicago to return to Cambridge and took up a post advising Obama during his presidential campaign. David A. Schkade, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, says he marveled at Sunstein’s work ethic, having worked with him to study the unpredictability of punitive damages in legal cases. “We’d have a conversation on Thursday and by Saturday...
...found to be strongly associated with early heart attack patients in a study co-authored by two Harvard Medical School professors and others in a report published in Nature Genetics last Sunday. The identification of the locations may make it easier to diagnose patients at risk, and co-author David M. Altshuler, a professor of genetics and medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that the paper provides “new biological clues.” Co-author Christopher J. O’Donnell, an HMS associate clinical professor, began collecting genetic data 10 years ago. He said that...
...Farm Workers of America—although delicate in appearance—exudes the calm passion and power that distinguishes leaders of her incredible historical stature. The daughter of a waitress and a coal miner, Señora Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts it, a “testament to the power each one of us possesses to make a positive difference.” Her acceptance of the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian of the Year Award, given by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural...
...minutes south, on Broadway near Columbia University, Campo - "gathering place" in Italian - is living up to its name (www.camponyc.com). New York foodies congregate inside the rust-and-gold dining room (accented by exposed brick and pressed tin on the ceiling) to indulge in chef David Rotter's fresh takes on Italy's greatest hits, including fried risotto balls, monkfish milanese and chicken alla diavolo cooked under a brick...
...Civil rights groups say any kind of castration, even if reversible, could take society down the road to eugenics. A 1985 U.S. Supreme Court ruling said that involuntary surgical castration constituted cruel and unusual punishment. David Fathi, head of Human Rights Watch's U.S. program in Washington, says the Czech methods not only defy medical convention but also are an affront to civil liberties. "Any irreversible punishment is a fundamental violation of human rights. And any kind of mutilation is barbaric," he says...