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Pound looked beyond the legal mechanism--beyond the maze of particular rules and forms in the workings of the judicial system--to the ideal element in the law and the raison d'etre of a legal order among men. What he discovered startled the juridical world of the early twentieth century. Law was not an end in itself for the sake of stability alone; nor was it a mere ordering of individual wills in the interplay of vicious competitive forces. The job of law was to harmonize conflicting interests in society through the force of an organized political structure...
...governmental policies derived from the "new economics" of Britain's John Maynard Keynes, still carries on his business at the same old stand. This time, however, he has presented his wares with both a new external decor and a significant number of changes in the internal mechanism. The key element in his program for preventing eatastrophic booms and busts remains the Federal government, but an inventory of its armory of weapons against depression and unemployment reveals a more diversified and better balanced set of techniques...
...reactionary element of the Nationalist regime readers the government "for the people, but not by the people," and, as a matter of fact, "not always for the people, either," said Fairbank...
...Schizatrypanum cruzi, a South American trypanosome that has an affinity for cancer cells. When injected into cancerous mice, it gradually dissolves their tumors, but also kills the mice. Roskin & Klyueva developed a toxin from killed trypanosomes that dissolved cancer cells but was harmless to healthy cells. The cancer-destroying element, they concluded, was not the trypanosome itself but a toxin which it secreted. The toxin has proved safe for human patients...
...that have created a housing shortage and unleashed an inflationary spiral, undergraduate veterans are today burdened with a greater number of academic, financial, and family worries than any previous group in the history of the College. Both the largest bloc of harried commuters in memory and the widespread student element concerned almost exclusively with the task of getting good grades help to underscore Harvard's overall lack of social integration and its studied aloofness. General uneasiness is the logical result of the universal desire to tie up a college education speedily and well...