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Along its shores stand the Houses of Parliament and the Tower of London. Only a few miles upriver are the meadows of Runnymede, where the barons extracted the Magna Carta from King John. The Thames is indeed England's Royal River, but it has not always been treated royally. Long a favorite garbage dump, the Thames' tidal waters near London had become so foul by the 17th century that James I threatened to move his court to Windsor. Then came two events that turned the river into what Victorians called a "monster soup": the Industrial Revolution...
...more than 200 law schools in the nation. Admission can be a cinch. Though quality institutions like the University of California Law School at Berkeley still look for top college graduates with 700 scores on the law boards, moonlight legal factories such as Van Norman University and Magna Carta University welcome anybody with two years of college-and at least $4,000 to spend on the dream of courtroom glory. The state's education code asks mainly two things of a law school: it must be a corporation and show assets of $50,000. The California Supreme Court recently...
...Bernie says, because "abortion is a denial of the Judeo-Christian emphasis of the Founding Fathers. They assumed that those who interpreted the law would be of this ethic. The Human Life Amendment will be the last great document of Western Civilization--like God speaking the Abraham, the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation...
...Giscard d'Estaing in paying their respects in Washington. Many countries have sent gifts to the U.S., though there is nothing to compare with France's centennial present of the Statue of Liberty. Britain has loaned to the U.S. for a year a copy of the Magna Carta, signed in 1215. (In like spirit, an anonymous U.S. institution helped the British government last week to buy back Flodden Field, site of the Battle of Hastings.) Canada, which became a new home for some 40,000 exiled American Tories during and after the revolt, has contributed a $1.1 million...
...original Magna Carta has dis appeared, but the document that will be displayed in the Capitol Rotunda for the next year is the first of four copies signed by a reluctant King John at Runnymede in 1215, granting personal and political freedoms to England's rebellious barons. The charter is regarded as the foundation stone for the common...