Word: breaths
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...Supreme Court will decide the Bakke case on narrow grounds or by stating broad principles concerning programs to aid minorities. As a result no one knows the extent to which the Bakke decision will affect thousands of affirmative-action programs in business, education and government. "Everybody is holding their breath. Courts and defendants are trying to do as little as possible until they see what the Bakke decision will say," says one lawyer. Notes Joseph Rauh, a leading civil rights attorney in Washington: "I don't blame the courts. They don't want to rule one way today...
...were using a definition of death jointly formulated by the judge, prosecutors and defenders, along the lines of one used by the World Health Organization: "The permanent disappearance of all vital signs." By this definition, the fetus had been alive, since the nurses testified that it had gasped for breath and had a heartbeat. But the jury split widely on the question of Waddill's culpability, with two strongly for acquittal, two strongly for conviction, and the rest unsure. Then, on the ninth day, they were sent home early...
...romance, inequality and greed, and would even stay funny while doing it. But as wonderfully acted and produced as the Loeb's version of Robert MacDonald's adaptation of The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro is, it lacks a certain something. Maybe the idea works for breath mints, but somehow putting two, two, two plays in one just doesn't quite make...
...really, this is taking the whole thing a bit too seriously--something that contradicts the whole spirit of the Loeb's production, which plays every breath to the hilt--including the atrocious Spanish sprinkled through the dialogue. Figaro is clearly the best Loeb production of the spring, and it would be unfair to demand much more...
Unless Harvard accedes to student demands, Harvard Square may once again become deserted. But don't hold your breath waiting for such a decision. As Danny Schecter, news director for radio station WBCN, pointed out in last Monday's teach-in at Sanders Theater, such reluctance to challenge corporations should be expected from a body called "The Corporation...