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...movie Gandhi had the effect of a well-told love story: it left a pleasant feeling inside, and it offered a simple, timeless optimism, the kind we've been told to abandon by our more worldly peers, Gandhi silenced the cynics. Or so it seemed...
Student fears that the faculty might abandon clinical education have proved to be unfounded. In fact, said Bernardi, that mistrusts "is part of the folklore and mythology of the student body at Harvard Law School...
...also had to abandon the "free style" wrestling techniques practiced in Canada and learn American collegiate wrestling--which forces the wrestlers to compete from the mat as well as from their feet--when he joined the Crimson forces...
Under present ethical provisions in most states, an attorney might choose to persuade the client to abandon any unlawful scheme, or he might stop representing him. Finally the lawyer probably has the option of informing authorities about his client's plans without violating the rules of confidentiality. At the American Bar Association's midyear meeting in New Orleans last week, the policymaking House of Delegates was asked to approve new standards specifying situations that could call for such disclosure. Instead, by a surprising vote of 207 to 129, the delegates barred disclosure unless the crime is "likely...
...opposing view was advanced by a six-member "working party" of the church in a report that had added to the growing national debate on the subject when it was released last October. The panel, led by Bishop John Baker of Salisbury, called upon the government to abandon its nuclear arms. Reason: nuclear war is so potentially disastrous that disarmament is worth even the risk of "blackmail and defeat" by an enemy...