Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is especially true in state and local courts, where most of American justice is meted out. "In some ways we now function just as we did in the days of Charles Dickens," says Judge James Lynch, chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Other potential candidates see a federal judgeship less as a prestigious and challenging job than as very hard work for low pay. Senator Charles Percy has privately remarked that he has had to offer, the job to ten people just to get one. Says U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edward...
More interesting is Western Avenue, which runs from Central Square straight to the Charles. The neighborhood it bisects is Riverside, one of Cambridge's heavily black communities. When it's hot, people are out all over; Donnell's Store does brisk business in ice, soda pop and ice cream despite...
The Charles takes up where Western Avenue ends, and you can follow this grand river in either direction. Towards Boston and the ocean it widens, a polluted but still grand expanse dotted on breezy days with the flash o sails. Walk the other way, and you're back to Harvard...
The standard place to meander is along the Charles, where you can find joggers 24 hours a day. Be careful about walking alone late at night, though. In winter you can "tray" (sled on the Union's meal trays) on Weeks Bridge. In the spring one sophomore sat underneath the...