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Your coverage represents precisely??the attitude that threatens to undermine America's competitive edge. The notion that the Ivy League doesn't matter for success is false. After all, TIME used Harvard's name on the cover to market the magazine. PRATIK CHOUGULE BROWN '08 East Greenwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...Parvin Foundation from which he has received about $12,000 annually for the past seven years. Though his relationship to Parvin was certainly less objectionable than Fortas' tie with the Wolfson Family Foundation ?the contract was not for life, for one thing, and Douglas' duties were spelled out precisely???the connection was still questionable and invited the accusation of poor judgment at least. The foundation until recently had derived income from Las Vegas gambling operations. Even after Douglas quit the organization, the American Bar Association said it would ask its ethics committee to consider whether Douglas had violated A.B.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A PROFESSIONAL FOR THE HIGH COURT | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Other men discovered electricity; others magnetism. They phrased mathematical laws which explained in a rule-of-thumb way, electrical and magnetic action. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) put these laws most precisely???and made electricity and magnetism nearly the same thing. Maxwell's laws made possible electric light and power, telephones, radios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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