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Jean-Pierre Berlan is with the Institut-National de la Recherche Agronomique in Paris, and was a research fellow at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is working on a book on Californian agriculture...
Samuel Johnson once proposed that if Bishop Berkeley and other metaphysicians doubted the physical existence of things, they might reassure themselves by kicking a rock: those who had trouble arriving at reality abstractly would find that their feet would tell them the truth. A similar standard of common sense should govern lawyers and judges in their continuing debate over fair trials and a free press in the U.S. At the heart of this classic tension between two democratic principles is the question of whether jurors are capable of rendering a conscientious and just verdict even in cases they may have...
...stanch the wound. But Heath was the first leader chosen by a vote under the 1965 reform rules, and no one at the time bothered to determine how he could be ousted. "I'm afraid my system wasn't all that well thought out," said Humphrey Berkeley, who drew up the rules. "It allows someone like Ted Heath, if he's stubborn enough, to be a life king...
...Downer, Murphy or Pennoyer (granted by benefactors of the same names), while Yale has $1,000 earmarked for persons named Leavenworth or DeForest. The Mae Helene Bacon-Boggs fund grants $300 a year to a female graduate of Shasta College who is admitted to the University of California at Berkeley, if she can prove that she does not drink or smoke. Carleton College provides about $600 to farmers' daughters. The University of Arizona offers $500 to any student with a 2.5 grade-point average-who also has roped calves in a rodeo. And the Union Pacific Railroad offers...
...defense motion included an affidavit from Dr. Kurt Benirschke, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, attesting that lung cells taken in an autopsy of the fetus show no evidence of respiration...