"The case invited scrutiny into what had been collecting practices that were not unusual in the American museum world of the 1980s and 1990s," Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the former president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, said in a telephone interview from New York.
The case invited heated rhetoric, with a government prosecutor labeling the defendants traitors in an early bail hearing and the defense in its filings invoking the 1954 anticommunist Senate hearings convened by then-Senator Joseph McCarthy.
It needs a voice that is able to sing beautifully when the case invites it, that can almost speak and that can declaim.
But even in this absence of certainty, his case invites a look at the long history of psychiatric medicine in war, if only because of his status as a battlefield psychiatrist, and the chance that his own psyche was, on some level, undone by the kind of stress he treated.
However, the case invites one to turn to the question of to what extent this provision plays a role in concrete practices within prisons.
Rule 74 (Amicus Curiae) reads: "A Chamber may, if it considers it desirable for the proper determination of the case, invite or grant leave to a State, organization or person to appear before it and make submissions on any issue specified by the Chamber".
Of the 2084 eligible cases invited to participate, 1205 consented (57.8%), 334 refused and 545 did not respond.
Although the participation rate was high (83%) among RA cases, invited population controls were slightly more reluctant to participate (64%).
(This is typical of problem cases or scenarios in medicine, law, business, engineering, applied ethics, and other professional training areas in which PBL and CBL first emerged. All are based on precedent, even if the cases invite creatively recombining existing ideas).
On average, 3 potential control cases per study case were invited to take part in the study, in order to achieve the required number of control cases (47).
"A historian has the right to detect a problem where a judge might find an 'absence of grounds for proceeding,' " he said.Although the holes in the Sofri case invite rich historical speculation, Mr. Ginzburg argues, within a court of law they could tip the scales in favor of the presumption of innocence.
