Word: berkeley
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Taken as a whole, with its campuses stretching from Berkeley to San Diego, the U.C. system more than rivals Harvard for preeminence in the American academic world. The divestment, in monetary terms far more significant than Harvard's would be, was also a tough political choice, as U.C. is a public institution...
...tremors portend the "big one" that Californians have feared for decades? No, say experts. Robert Uhrhammer of the University of California seismographic station in Berkeley called the succession of earthquakes "pure coincidence." Said he: "There is no evidence that other earthquakes are any more likely now than at any other time...
Rubin's dilemma has dogged lawyers and courts since the beginnings of the legal profession. "It is an unchallenged rule of professional ethics that a lawyer may not put on a witness who he knows is going to lie," explains Law Professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley. When the lying witness is the attorney's own client, however, the rule runs smack into another fundamental ethical rule -- a lawyer's obligation to protect the confidentiality of his client's conversations. Legal scholars have tilted back and forth over the issue. The currently prevailing view, endorsed...
...this year, Sanborn was convicted and sentenced to life, after a fifth court-appointed attorney put him on the stand to testify that he was not the man the victim's mother had seen at the murder scene. Sanborn's fate will strike many legal observers as unsurprising. Says Berkeley's Johnson: "A defendant who cannot convince his own attorney is unlikely to be a very persuasive witness...
...thousand on newsstands every week for 25 cents, leaves foreign policy and national affairs to the prestigious Boston Globe. Says Tab Editor Russel Pergament: "The key to our success is that we're relentlessly local." In most cases, free-paper editors carefully tailor their stories to readers' tastes. Berkeley's East Bay Express, which operates out of the former headquarters of the Black Panthers, caters to young urban professionals. One recent story: a 9,000-word investigative piece on a community opera group...