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Clearly no isolated case, the Telekom affair is being cited as one more example of waning respect for basic civil liberties. Uwe Wesel, an emeritus law professor at Berlin's Free University, said German courts have generally upheld privacy laws, but that individuals in positions of power appear to have grown impatient with the law. "Although the language of the courts is very clear that this kind of behavior is not allowed, there does appear to be a certain cultural shift taking place," he says. "Perhaps driven by the debate about the threat of terrorism, certain standards are weakening...
...thought it was very good, very solid and very sensible both legally and politically,” Law School Professor Emeritus Detlev F. Vagts ’49, one of Ma’s former supervisors, said of his dissertation. Recalling that Ma was “always friendly and respectful,” Vagts recounted a story in which a journalist in Taiwan had obtained Ma’s paper and asked Vagts if he could justify his praise of the paper in light of “all the typos.” He responded...
Nesson said he had hoped that several experts—including Lester S. Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and Jeffrey A. Miron, director of undergraduate studies in economics—would be allowed to testify to the harmlessness of marijuana...
Krister Stendahl, former dean and professor emeritus of the Harvard Divinity School, will be remembered by his colleagues for many things—among them, that he was “very Swedish.”Having left his homeland for a Harvard professorship in 1954, the New Testament scholar made his mark on the Harvard community and beyond with an understanding spirit that sought continuity in faith and integration in academia, said Divinity School professor Harvey Cox. “He was sort of a democratic socialist of the Swedish style—that was an integral part...
...VOMIT” appeared on the screen as Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman described how audience members would involuntarily react to the stimulus, including raised hairs on the back of the neck, increased sweat gland activity, and heightened sensitivity to other unsettling words. Kahneman, who is a professor emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, specializes in the psychological underpinnings of economic decision-making. The exercise in priming was part of Kahneman’s talk on judgment and intuition yesterday in Yenching Auditorium. Despite being a psychologist—and never...