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...Chayes attempts to provide a reason. "In our time," he says, "everyone believed in the system, in one way or another. The system had won the war, beaten the Depression, and put us through law school." While there were differences among political parties, there were no fundamental challenges to the system...
...BEgan his day as usual, unlocking the cabinet containing the knives. Without warning, Bobby reached past him, grabbing two knives. "No, Shaw, no!" Farrow yelled. Bobby Shaw stabbed him in the chest and ran into the hallway. Farrow chased him, then collapsed and died. Shaw was subdued and badly beaten. "I saw him the next day in the hospital ward," says Ruby. "His head was so big. It was twice the size of a normal head, like a watermelon." Only last December did Shaw offer a version of what happened. It was the voices, two or three kinds talking, male...
...child that he has said so in testimony. When he did, Ruby Shaw got up and left the courtroom. She later told him, "I know you had to say all that, but I just couldn't stand reliving those terrible times." Says Pincus: "I believe he was abused -- beaten and burned." As for brain damage, tests administered in 1990 indicate that Shaw's right parietal lobe is damaged. That is the area of the brain that controls how we interpret the behavior of others. Shaw's frontal lobes are also atrophied...
Driving to work, he sees people being beaten on their front lawns by mysterious men in gray suits. At a restaurant a goon squad abducts a customer while other diners barely look up from their pasta salads. Harry's five-year- old daughter, who doesn't talk, suddenly breaks her silence with one cryptic sentence: "Everything must go." And that's not counting the virtual- reality glasses that transport Harry into an 18th century ballroom, the strange palm-tree tattoos that seem to have become a fashion statement, and the creepy Senator who tries to recruit Harry to some shadowy...
Instead, Harvard was left with the bitter taste of a frustrating loss to a team that it should have beaten...