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...means indicative of the activities of the Board today, the Galbraith incident provides a useful milestone in the history of government at Harvard. A Board comprised of staunch clergymen when it was created in 1642 has over the intervening three and a half centuries acquired a much more diverse complexion--now sporting a wide membership that includes Blacks, women, businessmen, and academics...
...Brenda Frazier was not the richest or the most beautiful girl in '30s America, she came close enough. She was the glittering symbol of privilege and glamour; her picture made the cover of LIFE; women imitated her Kabuki-like look, with a complexion evoking Colette's description of "milk in shadow." Brenda was seen with notables from Errol Flynn to Cardinal Spellman to Irving Berlin. But obscurity overtook her, and in later years she viewed her life as a cosmic joke: she had become one of the most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party...
Civil libertarians, however, warned that the court's endorsement of the principle of preventive detention would change the complexion of American justice. Judges faced with potentially dangerous defendants had long practiced a de facto brand of preventive detention: setting bail so high that it could not be met. But the act legitimized what had until then been an unacknowledged purpose of many bail procedures. "This sends a dangerous message that the trial is an afterthought," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz last week. New York Defense Lawyer Alan Silber was reminded of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "To paraphrase...
...cold was saved in the northern city of Amiens when a vagrant discovered a newborn girl abandoned at the city dump. He called for help, and the girl was rushed to the hospital. Doctors rated her chances of survival excellent and named her Violette because of her purplish complexion when she was first brought...
...nonsensical talk during the '80s among cocky Republicans and Chicken Little Democrats of a rightward realignment, voters Tuesday sent some pretty liberal men--and one woman--to Washington. Considering also the liberals elected in 1984, and discounting the cranky Southern bad ol' boys who will chair key committees, the complexion of the new Senate is a fairly healty pink...