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...took a 15-man advisory committee seven years to draft the new federal rules. They will hardly revolutionize U.S. courtrooms; what they will do is permit a wider range of evidence. The biggest change is a "broader discretion to admit hearsay," says Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. Hearsay-generally any information to which a witness cannot testify of his own firsthand knowledge-has traditionally been forbidden except in certain specified circumstances (for example, statements made by a person against his own interest). Now a judge may admit any hearsay having "circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness...
...also asks for a suggestion of a Faculty member from the student's department of concentration who "might be persuaded to reach a wider undergraduate audience by offering" a General Education course...
...winners, who will each receive $2,000, believe that the awards will bring new recognition of chemotherapy's value as a means of combatting cancer. The researchers themselves may also attract wider attention in the future. In the 27 years since the Lasker Foundation began making awards, 22 of the recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes as well...
Signs of a cautious return to wider literary interests than poetry praising Mao or socially conscious tractor drivers did appear last year with the republication of Western classics like Thucydides and such traditional Chinese novels as The Dream of the Red Chamber and Monkey. But contemporary Chinese fiction is still appallingly banal by Western standards. At the Hsin Hua bookstore in Peking's main shopping district, I asked a salesgirl to tell me which of the recently published Chinese novels was reckoned the best. "Take your pick over there," she answered unselfconsciously. "They're all the same...
...Larry Carsman Band--fans of James will recall the favorite "Some Kind of Wonderful" sung by Larry as well as such classics as "I Feel Good" and "Massin' with the Kid" This is the tradition which the Montgonters band began to leave in the quest for wider audiences and reputation...