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...into narcissism. The emphasis on it in psychoanalysis, says Donald Kaplan, "is partly an intellectual fad, partly a response to the kind of patients we started to get in the mid-'60s-people in constant pursuit of new experiences to make their sense of self more palpable and acquit themselves of being less than their neighbors." Psychoanalyst Hendin agrees: "When I grew up, there was a greed for material things; now it's a very egocentric greed for experience." Today, says Hendin, "the culture has made caring seem like losing...
...juries, could settle questions of law as well as ones of fact. It was not unusual in those tumultuous days for a person charged with a crime to face a jury composed of sympathetic friends who were quite prepared to ignore a judge's instructions and acquit the accused even though the law and the facts were plainly against...
...uncertain points of law been defined at the outset--had lawyers known what degree of separation from the mother constituted birth or even what constitutes abortion--the case might have been decided differently. The State Supreme Court must now acquit Edelin and return to women a symbol of their fundamental rights...
...conclude that Edelin was innocent--in light of his definition of birth as the separation of the fetus from the mother and in light of the overwhelming evidence from both prosecution and defense that the fetus was dead when it was removed from the womb. McGuire did not acquit Edelin, unfortunately, but gave those definitions to the jury. Inevitably, the recollection of those five minutes from the judge was blocked out by the memory of the 70 minutes from the shouting prosecutor who talked about the "right to live...
...Assuming the president can acquit himself, can the president also designate a successor who will eventually pardon him?" Boudin asked before an audience of 150 at the Law School...