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...HARVARD PROFESSOR David Landes might say, much of modern life depends on clocks, though you wouldn't know that from watching Harvard students. In Clockwise, Mr. Simpson (John Cleese) has based his entire life on punctuality. The ordinary headmaster of an ordinary English public school, Mr. Simpson receives the honor of heading the National Headmasters' Conference. All he has to do is get there on time. And that of course is where, or rather when, things start to go wrong...
Brandt's joint appointment in the History and Science Department and the Medical School's Department of Social Medicine and Public Health allows him to teach both undergraduate and professional students about the values and ethics implicit in modern science and medicine, including issues of gender and sexuality, he says...
Brandt's colleagues praise his ability to relate historical issues to the modern world, both in his scholarly work and in the classroom. "He has an eye for questions that are inherently historically interesting, but also have real meaning for today's issues," says Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the history of science...
Students laud Brandt for his ability to apply his historical work to current concerns and for his compelling and accessible teaching style. "His course, [History and Science 142] 'Values and Ethics in Modern Medicine and Science,' has helped me develop a sense of social awareness and a historical perspective," says Robert Lowe '88, a biology concentrator...
...longest time last week. Late- night games on weekends are crimes against nature. When venality becomes a ground rule, a dreariness seeps into the cool night air, and the Red Sox and Mets seemed only alternately able to shake it. "Here's the windup and the pitch," in the modern form, means The Cosby Show is ending, the Merrill Lynch commercials know no boundaries, and it is getting on to 9 p.m. EDT -- cue the pitchers...