Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...academic community. "It sounds reasonable," says the University of Louisiana's Lewis Pyenson, author of The Young Einstein (1985), of Zackheim's theory. "I'd like to see what evidence has been dug up to support it." But Boston University historian Robert Schulmann, director of the Einstein Papers Project, is much less impressed. He concedes that Zackheim's conclusions about Lieserl's fate are "as good as anything I could come up with, or anyone else. But," he emphasizes, "it's speculation." Harvard physicist and Einstein historian Gerald Holton is highly critical. "She worked very hard traipsing through all those...
...Innocence Project's positive proof of the fallibility of the criminal-justice system argues for the abolition of capital punishment. The unfortunate innocents who pay this ultimate penalty cannot benefit from scientific advances and good work by organizations like the Innocence Project. Tragically, they will never have justice. MARILYN W. HAAKER Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...Simpson trial that DNA samples can be contaminated and made useless (or at least open to "reasonable doubt") as scientific evidence in a criminal trial. Through his own arguments, we are left with two possible conclusions: either Scheck is freeing potentially guilty people through the Innocence Project, or he successfully defended a double murderer he knew to be guilty. I don't know whether to laud this man or deplore him. JEFFREY M. LLEWELLYN Denver...
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, through their Innocence Project, are working to free the wrongly imprisoned, and I am disturbed that "even many prosecutors" concede that this is an important function. Are the other prosecutors more interested in convictions than in justice...
...realized that e-commerce is an attitude of doing things faster, being more accurate, having better technology," Kathwari says. "I saw that it could improve every element of our business." But first Kathwari had to finish a four-year project to integrate the computer systems at all Ethan Allen stores, 70% of which are privately owned. He also needed to convince store owners that they wouldn't be hurt by the new site, which he will do by crediting a fraction of each online sale to the Ethan Allen store of the customer's choice. Now that the site...