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Died. Maurice Hilleman, 85, low-profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines--a record--and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox...
...Johnson had a much closer seat as the Wall Street Journal’s Beijing correspondent. In “Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China,” Johnson tells the stories of three Chinese citizens who have challenged the government. Ma Wenlin, a law clerk, helped overtaxed farmers file a class-action suit against the government. Fang Ke, an architecture student, wrote an influential underground book detailing the destruction of old Beijing. Chen Zixiu, a retiree and a member of the Falun Gong sect, refused to give up her religious practices in the face...
...with an institutional advantage. At the court's regular Friday conference, as senior Justice, he addresses his colleagues concerning cases immediately after Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger's presentations are said to be brief and sketchy, Brennan's long, detailed and thoughtful. "The conference may disagree," says one former clerk, "but it is in terms Brennan established." Further, when he is in the majority and the chief is not, his senior status gives him the right to name the author of the court's opinion. Rather than taking all important decisions for himself, Brennan frequently and diplomatically selects a Justice...
...intangible but hardly unimportant source of Brennan's power is his personal charisma. "He is universally respected, loved is not too strong a word," says a former clerk. Brennan is revered in part because of his reverence for the institution he serves. Columbia Law School Professor Gerard Lynch, a former Brennan clerk, says that he remains as delighted as ever by the fact that "ordinary people consider the Supreme Court the last bastion of justice and fairness...
...should understand the principle of blind justice better than Attorney General Edwin Meese. Still, he may have been slightly taken aback when he learned that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Meese's trouble started two weeks ago, when a municipal court clerk in Los Angeles accidentally discovered the five-year-old warrant while scanning computer records. The top cop, it seems, had committed the crime of jaywalking in 1980, right in front of Ronald Reagan's California campaign headquarters. His fine: $10. When Meese, then Reagan's chief of staff, did not pay the penalty, it automatically...