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...writing a grocery list or solving an equation while the other scans the environment and tends to other basic chores. As we age, however, the walls between the hemispheres seem to fall, with the two halves working increasingly in tandem. Neuroscientist Roberto Cabeza of Duke University dubs that the HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults) model, and judging by his work, the phenomenon is a powerful...
Color-based immigration restrictions did not continue until 1973. They were first lifted in the late 1960s, under Prime Minister Harold Holt, and the process was completed by Edward Gough Whitlam’s Labor government...
...have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis." HAROLD PINTER, British playwright, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature...
Enter the energetic and ambitious Professor Harold H. Koh ’75, who is now the dean of Yale Law School. Spurred by a varied group of Yale law students—including a rebel and a Rhodes Scholar—Koh filed suit against the U.S. in a Brooklyn federal district court. He argued that the Haitians had a right to counsel and that the government was illegally denying him access to his clients. The Justice Department struck back with the same argument that had convinced the Atlanta appeals court...
...worked until Oct. 1997. He left the profession to pursue writing, and late the next year, he started to work on his first book. Not surprisingly, “Storming the Court” is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation...