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...their doctors or the state authorities. "We sympathize with the Quinlans," says New Jersey Attorney General William Hyland. "We do not wish to add to their anguish." But he insists that state law does not permit a termination of treatment. And no matter how Superior Court Judge Robert Muir rules, the case will probably be appealed, because of its gravity, to the New Jersey Supreme Court. Then, if Karen is still alive, it may well be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Cool and Balanced. Once all the arguments have been heard, Judge Muir intends to make his decision next week. It will probably be the toughest question that has ever faced the 43-year-old jurist, who specialized in municipal law before his appointment to the bench in 1971. "He is cool, and very balanced," says one observer. "He does his homework and weighs everything very carefully." Judge Muir will have plenty of weighing to do, for the courts have generally been reluctant to make life and death decisions. Nonetheless, the question of whether the plug can be pulled is unlikely...
...committees down through the years have usually been successful in appointing important artists and scholars, including T.S. Eliot '10, Edwin Muir, e.e. cummings '10, and Octavio Paz literature; Edwin Panovsky and Laurence Binyon in fine arts; R. Buckminster Fuller in architecture; and Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky in music. But the committee has also been turned down. It tried to get W.H. Auden one year but he couldn't come. It seems that Auden wanted to come, but he was headed in the opposite direction, toward England. Edmund Wilson also turned down the Norton Chair, apparently because he didn...
...Senator Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. By liberal standards, his voting record on labor and civil rights is flawless. Though he wrote the legislation permitting the Alaska pipeline, he is the only member of the Senate who has received the Sierra Club's John Muir award for his efforts on behalf of the environment. His own political conduct is punctilious; he does not indulge in inflammatory rhetoric or ad hominem attacks. "I hate emotion in anything," says Jackson, "even in religion. If you master the facts, then you can posture yourself in such...
...Morning Prayers - Cynthia Muir, Radcliffe '65. Appleton Chapel of Memorial Hall...