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Charles Francis Jr. was an Adams who spent his life refusing to conform. Edward Kirkland, professor emeritus of American history at Bowdoin College, deftly exposes the reasons why. He concludes that while Adams is little remembered today, he was the most brilliant Adams of a generation in which the family's genius flowered. However, his superior talents made him impatient and irascible. "He resented having been born young," Professor Kirkland says. He also resented having been born an Adams, and in his 60s he formally stated why this was so: "In plain language, I do not like...
...family's charges hold up, the two Alabama bondsmen may be liable to prosecution in Pennsylvania for assault and impersonating officers. But on the more serious issues-illegal entry and kidnaping-they are unlikely to be touched. Although police must conform to established legal procedures before extraditing a prisoner from one state to another, bail bondsmen remain curiously above the law. They got there by old British common-law tradition; they stay there because of an 1872 Supreme Court ruling which declared that the rearrest of a defendant on bail "is likened to the rearrest of an escaping prisoner...
...Institute of General Medical Studies, and the Cancer Institute have created panels to review the report. These panels have already revised their own recommendations to conform more closely to the requests in the Westheimer report...
Lighting must be changed first when it does not conform exactly to the original diagrams and when Hall, having seen the effect, decides to modify the original idea. More than his respect for the potential of lights in creating effects, Hall is prompted to emphasize them because of the small budget which limits the size of his sets...
Speaking his sermon in thickly accented English, the Pope dwelt on Christ's seventh beatitude, "Blessed are the peacemakers." Said Paul: "If we truly wish to be Christians, we must love peace. We must conform our minds to the thought of peace...