Word: parallelling
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...book, “Storming the Court,” attorney Brandt Goldstein skillfully weaves together two parallel narratives. The first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern...
...point comebacks—against Dartmouth in his first start in 2001 and against Brown his senior year—during Sunday’s game. “I really was thinking about that,” Fitzpatrick said. “It was a neat little parallel. I’ve been in that situation—you either make a big play or do something to ignite the rest of the team.” He said that the quickness of Martin’s injury meant that he didn’t have time...
...integrating into the European society that they have chosen to call home. My suggestion is to take the British stance: it is time to begin deporting immigrants who propagate terrorism or incite violence. Russell W. MacDonald Huelva, Spain Your story on the disaffection of young European Muslims suggests a parallel with European Jews. Despite centuries of racial, religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall...
...their conductivity changes. A patient’s diagnosis is obtained by measuring the electric current across the grid. According to Lieber, these nanowire devices have numerous advantages over current techniques for diagnosing cancer: they are cheap to produce, can test for a number of different cancer markers in parallel, and can be easily updated when new markers are discovered. Professor Lieber was not available for comment about his research...
Lester, like Mauger, seems to understand that she exists in a parallel universe to the students she serves—one where the intangible Harvard name doesn’t give either of them any boost towards professional or personal success. But Harvard is giving them something...