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...generations of Americans. Probably half the millions of frames of TriX and Polaroid that tourists expose in Yosemite each season are homages, conscious or not, to Adams-sentiment imitating art in the presence of nature. Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West on our ancestors, Adams has imposed his on us. It is still America before its fall, a rugged paradise unmarred by the nasty litter and twitter of Homo sapiens. No living photographer of landscape seems able to match the amplitude of Adams...
Loyal's legions iced it in the ninth as Ed Durso drove in another with a double and Jimmy Stoeckel drew a walk with the bases loaded off yet another Eagle pitcher, Larry Moran...
...areas, where cop-wary blacks and Spanish-speaking people now have larger representation on juries than they had in the past. That is only one part of what H. Clay Jacke, a Los Angeles attorney (and former policeman) calls the "slow erosion" of cops' courtroom status. Detective Tom Moran, 23-year veteran on the Boston force, observes: "Our credibility bottomed-out during the late '60s. We had all the civil rights cases, the riots, the antiwar marches, and we were ordered to control them. Corruption in government and scandals in police departments didn't help either...
Policemen, of course, often shade their testimony out of a sense of duty. Frustration builds when a defendant "walks" (goes free), even though a cop is certain of his guilt. Says Detective Moran: "Where the defendant gets a bunch of friends and they lie his way home, some cops think, 'Well, they're lying like that, so I'm going to do it too.' " Columbia Law Professor Richard Uviller, a former prosecutor, observes that false testimony by cops can be divided into two categories. The all too familiar "white lie" does not directly bear...
...Rhode Island, where the whining high school student essay is traditionally adopted as the Governor's official Thanksgiving proclamation, 17-year-old Mary Moran composed a sharp attack on "the absurdity of this holiday. Thanksgiving seems to be pretended, a farce, little more than an outdated tradition no one has yet found time to discard." Said a dismayed Governor Philip Noel: "I could not sign that as an expression of my thinking. Everyone in this country has something to be thankful for." He should not have been quite so dismayed, since Mary Moran's essay went on to express...