Memorials to Gandhi, Einstein share a surprising common bond

With January temperatures predicted to be considerably colder than the District's relatively warm December, two residents are clinging unabashedly to summer footwear. Outside the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue between 21st and 23rd streets, Robert Berks's sculpture depicts Albert Einstein seated and sandal-clad, holding a book. A mile and a half up 21st Street, in the park circumscribed by Massachusetts Avenue and Q Street, Gautam Pal's Mahatma Gandhi statue -- a gift from I...