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...monitors; the readings on all three had to match before the cutting away of malfunctioning parts of the child's brain could begin. The incisions were delicate, the atmosphere tense and progress slow. Surgeons relieved one another, while gowned students observed intently and residents stood by to watch and assist as needed; in all, perhaps 20 people drifted through the room. After 81Ú2 hours Peacock's team, exhausted but exhilarated, agreed that they were done. The girl recovered quickly and suffered no further seizures...
...bilious rage. In his written opinions, he begins with premises that no self-respecting black would disagree with, then veers off into a neverland of color-blind philosophizing in which all race-based policies, from Jim Crow laws designed to oppress minorities to affirmative-action measures seeking to assist them, are conflated into one morally and legally pernicious whole. He delights in gratuitously tongue-lashing the majority of blacks who disagree with him on almost every civil rights issue. He heaps scorn on federal judges who have used the bench to enforce and expand civil rights, accusing them...
...Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel and declared that indigent defendants accused of felonies must be provided with attorneys because, wrote Justice Hugo Black, the "noble ideal" of a fair trial is impossible if the poor man must "face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule to all crimes, including misdemeanors, that result in imprisonment for any length of time. But ensuring this right falls, ultimately, on local jurisdictions, which vary wildly from one place to the next. Alabama, for example, has a state...
...years. Capitalizing on the parties' even split of the current chamber, Brown recruited a dissident Republican, Doris Allen, to take over his job, put her over the top with the votes of all Democrats and then got himself appointed "speaker emeritus" -- a position that will allow him to "assist" the new speaker while he focuses on running for mayor of San Francisco. Allen is the first woman to hold the post...
Ames tied a Harvard record by scoring nine of Harvard's goals that day, and added an assist to push his point total into the double figures. The Crimson went to on to win its final four games of the season...