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...ground that the police failed to warn him of his rights to silence and to counsel as soon as they had other solid evidence against him-his fingerprints at the scene of the crime. In effect, that reversal also destroyed the case against Aranda-and spurred the court to confront the whole problem of how confessions should be handled in joint trials...
...product of his methods is at least double. Coles seeks to learn from Negroes, migrant workers, and Southerners generally, how men -- often "ordinary" men -- confront oppression and change. Their struggle for opportunities and for education in turn implies cures for the unjust, exploitative situation from which their troubles spring...
Part of the embarrassment is a reaction to the tasteless emotionalism that still surrounds the Kennedy name, a fear of being caught staring at the magazine covers with their sometimes sensational, sometimes only painfully sentimental headlines which still confront us in the Square...
...prehistoric man, everything he saw probably seemed alive; death was the unthinkable anomaly. The situation is reversed in a scientifically oriented world; amid dead matter, life seems an unaccountable, brief flash in the interstellar dark. Not that this has destroyed the power of faith to confront death. Beyond the doubts of its own "demythologers," and on a plane of thought beyond either denial or confirmation by science, Christianity still offers the hope of eternal life. Theologians are debating whether this means immortality in the sense of the survival of the soul, or resurrection, in the sense of a new creation...
...five other lawyers have since flitted in and out of the case, trading mutual insults through a blizzard of appeals. Equally "grotesque," say Kaplan and Waltz, was last winter's revelation that Judge Brown was not only writing a book on the case, which he was about to confront again in the form of a new hearing on Ruby's current sanity, but that he had sent a letter to his New York publisher proposing that he announce publicly: "I have not begun to write a book." It was that disclosure, the authors suggest, that forced Judge Brown...