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...legal philosophy than Black, Harlan was a judicial conservative whose lucid opinions rested on scholarship and a devotion to precedent-even to the point of often discarding his own previous positions once a majority of his colleagues had rejected his argument. "He kept the court honest by insisting on acid analysis and intense self-reflection," notes Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam. "His genius was in his sense of the proper decision-making processes of the court." Although often a leader of the conservative dissent against many innovations of the Warren Court, Harlan was more logical than ideological...
...Harvard is not bad for the conventional reasons. Nobody ever gets busted here. That's really true. You can leave bricks of dope lying on the floor, you can hang tabs of acid out the window tied together with a bright orange string. You can walk down the street singing a song you made up with the words, 'oh woweee, I sure am stoned tonight,' and you won't even get stopped...
Those substitutes, unfortunately, seem to be more dangerous than phosphates. One of the chemicals, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), was substituted because it cleans well and usually decomposes soon after use. But it has been found to combine with heavy metals like mercury and cadmium in drinking-water supplies, producing chemical compounds that have been linked to birth defects in animals. Thus the compounds may affect human beings as well. At the Surgeon General's request last year, manufacturers removed NTA detergents from the market...
...Bombs, Acid and Fire. Duc's difficulty is that he has been a particularly outspoken opponent of President Thieu, whom he denounces as serving "the interests of war profiteers, the privileged classes and a foreign power [the U.S.]." Soon after entering Congress in 1967, he founded an antigovernment newspaper, Tin Sang (Morning News), which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey...
...water." In the event of a suit, the city agreed to pay the first $5,000 of the company's legal costs. Today the paper mill has been joined by a clutch of chemical companies and other industries. One chemical company alone dumps 690,000 pounds of sulfuric acid daily into the Savannah River, occasionally causing the water to boil, seethe and emit the malodors of hydrogen sulfide and methane gas. The Savannah has become so polluted that not even hardened beach bums will swim...