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...Powell has ducked paying a $46,500 libel judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow whom Powell labeled on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. With interest, Powell's debt is now close to $51,000. With rare severity, New York has issued a warrant for his civil ar rest. But now that Congress has convened, Solon Powell has once more donned the constitutional toga (Art. I, Sec. 6) that immunizes Congressmen from civil arrest "during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same...
...case was serious enough to warrant a specialist, so into the Nairobi headquarters of the African Physicians' Association strode Dr. Symon Thuita to handle it. As Dr. Thuita well knew, the best way to begin any examination is by taking the patient's pulse. "If the pulse leaps like a frog," he explained, "the problem is in the throat. If it jumps like a cow, it is in the gastric system, and if it is smooth as a snake, then it is in the belly...
...construction. Almost all of its $6,000,000 from Ford will go toward scholarships, fellowships, and endowments for more than 30 faculty chairs (average endowment: $400,000). "Here we are -a teen-ager among the university giants," said President Abram L. Sachar, "and we had better be good to warrant going steady with the best." With the latest gift, he added, "we will secure virtually all our tenured professorships in one fell swoop. This will make academic history...
...Chief Justice John Marshall defined in the 1807 Aaron Burr treason case as "evidence furnishing good reason to believe that the crime alleged has been committed by the person charged with committing it." Such evidence may be no more than an FBI agent's testimony, or the arrest warrant signed by the commissioner himself. The evidence may be inadmissible at the accused's eventual trial. It may be insufficient for indictment by a federal grand jury, which is the sole indictor under federal law. All a U.S. commissioner really determines is whether it seems more prudent to hold...
Chaotic Mess. One probable explanation for the poor quality of commissioners is money: they are paid entirely on a fee-basis ($6 for signing a search warrant, for example), with an annual maximum of $10,500. Only 25 commissioners hit that level last year; more typically, Miss Carter earned $904. Another problem is that commissioners, who serve four-year terms, are under the thumb of district judges, who may fire them without showing cause. As a result, quality varies widely...