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Described by Mendelsohn as a “meticulous scholar,” Cohen’s work covered diverse topics including the growth of physics in the 17th and 18th centuries, the relationship between the natural and social sciences, and the history of computing. According to Gingerich, he also played a critical role in putting together the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard, which is located in the basement of the Science Center...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, literary critic and scholar Louis Menand will leave his current post at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) to join Harvard’s faculty next spring, top English department officials said—with a prestigious named chair and a Core class likely to come soon after...
...deal with all kinds of undesirables. Those who travel to Beijing to petition the central government or complain of local corruption, for example, often fall into its clutches. "Since China has no mechanism or judicial body to ensure its government policies adhere to its own laws," says a legal scholar in Beijing who asks not to be identified, "nothing will change until someone at the very top wants...
...rights lawyer, has filled top NIS posts not with professional spy chasers but with left-leaning prot?g?s who, like him, favor peaceful dialog with militaristic North Korea. The agency's new director is former human-rights lawyer Ko Young Koo, who fought to get Kim Nak Joong, the aforementioned scholar, released a decade ago. "We need someone who will set the agency straight," Roh told his Cabinet in late April. New management is just the beginning. Under a reform blueprint announced last month, the agency's domestic-spying operations will be curtailed and its anticommunist bureau abolished, according...
...Scholar Tsche Chong Kil is found dead at NIS (then called the Korean Central Intelligence Agency) headquarters. Agents say he jumped from a seventh-floor window after confessing to spying for North Korea...