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…iversity School of Medicine, with whom CTT Producer/Director Peter Getzels and I spoke with at length today. Patrick is one of the leading sleep and dream researchers (he himself more dreams). More importantly, he is perhaps the leading chronicler of the field, with many publicat...

…gn to be handled by nato. Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict. Madam Secretary For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just one critical piece of his record. But, for Hillary Clint...

…ers of the consequences of a government victory in the Reems case. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional lawyers, has never been known as an apocalyptic civil libertarian. Accordingly, when Professor Dershowitz speaks o...

…tual interests. Given this commonality of interests and beliefs, it should not be surprising that support for Israel is one of the most pronounced and consistent foreign policy values of the American people. Today’s interdependent global economy requires that trade policy be dev...

…eir way to the courthouse, their date with the public defender, and an appearance before the judge. Some get out much sooner, if only they can make bail. But there’s no bail without money — or at least collateral—and, of course, being without money is often what lands people in j...

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…with rectangular grids of increasing fineness. The result is an equipartition of phase space such that there is at most one orbital point in each rectangle of the grid, with, of course, many rectangles in the finer grids being empty. This final grid partition is called a generati...

… from international collections that is being staged in an 18th-century mansion in Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, a stone's throw from the Frieze Art Fair. Four of the graduates were selected to receive £1,000 bursaries to develop a project for inclusion. They are: German Pabl...

and the secret to vigor and longevity. “...to achieve fullness of life one had to abide in empty nothingness, xuwu.” In Lao-Tsu’s Tao-Te-Ching, “...the Way is gained by daily loss, loss upon loss until...by letting go, it all gets done...” William James, in The Principles of Psy...

…the Justice Department's institutional capacity for enforcement probably exceeds that of its state counterparts, but in one respect the overlap is not complete. The key substantive criminal offenses available to prosecutors in the federal code are somewhat more restrictive. The p...

…w enforcement, then there is something very wrong with that system. The theme of this paragraph — the right to know of one’s rights — has pervaded my thinking and teaching. During that term, I also drafted opinions—some majority, some concurring, some dissenting—on trial by jur...

… in Afghanistan and Iraq due to the war. This is excessive. This is no longer revenge. This is senseless brutality. On one reading, Pope Benedict XVI kept his knowledge of pedophilic priests quiet and confidential in order to forgive them and protect the church. But this seeming...

… I treat his spouse, but I can't be responsible for how he treats his spouse. But what if I'm already friends with someone, and one of my partners gets involved with that person? Do I have special responsibilities in that case? I'm still figuring that one out. 2. When is it act...

…n , shut down this spring as advertisers vanished because of their opposition to the Hungarian government, leaving only one print opposition daily. The State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Budapest have remained almost entirely silent about all of this. The compliant new U.S...

…set for Sept. 7, on the host city for the 2020 Olympics. Tokyo, 150 miles south of the stricken nuclear power plant, is one of three finalists competing to host the games. The others are Istanbul and Madrid. Opposition lawmakers here have demanded that Mr. Abe stay home and decl...