"Sacco and Vanzetti," Bruce Watson's spirited history of the affair, does a great service in rescuing fact from the haze of legend and disentangling Sacco and Vanzetti from the symbols they all too quickly became.
Re "An Organ of Many Talents, at the Root of Serious Ills" (Basics, Sept. 15): Natalie Angier does a great service in explaining the critical workings of the pancreas, one of the body's least understood organs.
DAVID CRANE Chief Executive, NRG Energy Princeton, N.J., Nov. 13, 2011 To the Editor: Your article does a great service in detailing the oversubsidization of alternative energy, but doesn't mention the biggest problem with these kinds of direct subsidies: They are addictive and create long-term corporate dependency.
I don't want to single out Krugman and DeLong, but technocratic economists in general engage in partial equilibrium social science when they ignore moral concerns and the constraints "legitimacy" places on feasible policy.Mr Waldman does a great service in insisting on "full equilibrium" analysis.
And for that reason, he adds, "the Richardson paper does a great service to developmental biology".
But Kaling refuses to lose weight just because she's on TV, and by simply being herself she does a great service for her thousands of viewers. 5. She's not afraid to be unapologetically girly.
