The American astronomer Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919) was a pioneer in the fields of stellar spectroscopy and photometry. Edward Pickering was born on July 19, 1846, in Boston, Mass., of a distinguished New England family. After studying at...

Are Times Editorials Fact-Checked? Renominating Judge Pickering-especially in the wake of the Trent Lott affair-is a thumb in the eye of the black community. -New York senator Charles Schumer, National Review Online, October 3 Judge Pickering's record of working with both races...

Late in the afternoon on Thursday, March 14, in a crowded hallway in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Bruce Cohen, a top aide to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, warmly greeted Elizabeth Cavendish, the legal director and general counsel of the National...