Word: cases
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...habit of responding to letters to the editors. But in this case, we believe we must. The reader's argument, in its beguiling simplicity, contains all of the follies of the Cold War and the tragedy in Vietnam wrapped up into two sentences. This reader wants America to follow blindly our fearless leader for Realpolitik reasons. George Bush would love that. But the the U.S. should never plunge into war without debating it in a national forum. Obviously, Bush thinks he's right. But that is no reason for Congress to forfeit its Constitutional prerogative to question the president...
...line from Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf appeared in the Dartmouth Review's masthead on Yom Kippur, conservatives across the country picked sides. Some right-wingers, including William F. Buckley, rallied to the paper's defense, calling the incident a fake and the Dartmouth equivalent of the Tawana Brawley case. Others argued that the Review's patently offensive tactics discredited a more thoughtful conservative voice...
...fact that the two are physically identical is about the only thing the prosecution and the defense can agree on in the case, which is expected to go to trial this month. The Santa Clara County district attorney's office charges that on the night of May 10, 1988, the twins assaulted Storton when he , identified himself as a police officer, interrupting their attempted break-in of a San Jose apartment. Attorneys for the Blicks maintain that the twins were innocently throwing pebbles at a friend's window to wake him when they were startled by the officer...
Storton swears he knows who nipped him: Jonathan, the one who had long hair on the night of the crime. Clearly an open and shut case but for a small detail. By the time the twins were arrested three days after the incident, both had short haircuts. Storton still insists it was Jonathan. But one of the defense attorneys, Chris Carroll, predicts that "there will be substantial evidence submitted at the trial to show that the officer was mistaken about the identity of the biter...
...next Harvard president will have: to spearhead a major fund drive which has already been planned. He or she will have to approach many incredibly wealthy individuals, most of them alumni or alumnae, successful in the business world, parents of current or future applicants and, in practically every case, white...