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...more than a century of the American past, with its bloodshed and racial obsessions, its hallucinatory edges and its complicated freedoms. The March is a more straightforward book than Ragtime. You won't find scenes here quite like the ones in that book in which J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford meet to trade views on the supernatural or Sigmund Freud takes Carl Jung to Coney Island (something that, by the way, actually occurred). But if the feelings this time flow more strictly from the facts, they flow abundantly all the same. At one point the thoughtful Emily defends herself against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Student Of History | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

Schumer and Roberts, both graduates of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, also shared a brief exchange that harkened back to their days in Cambridge. The senator referenced Franklin L. Ford, a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who taught history at Harvard while both men were there...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nominee Spars With Senators | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

...think a modest approach requires beginning with the body of precedent,” Schumer said. “That’s what judges do. And that’s a recognition, just as Professor Ford said, that...we’re not smarter than our fathers who laid down this precedent...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nominee Spars With Senators | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

After a brief pause, Schumer repeated, “Professor Ford,” to which Roberts echoed, “Professor Ford...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nominee Spars With Senators | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

...stress becomes impossible to compute reliably. But if you can figure out how much effort you're using (force), stress becomes much easier to calculate. That's Verity's key. The result: with unprecedented precision, engineers can predict how long a welded joint will last. Meaning? Car companies like Ford spend years and millions of dollars testing welds. Dong says Verity makes 90% of that redundant. --By Matt Smith

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figuring the Future: Numbers Made Real | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

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