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...Leaders contend in the world, but they rarely try to make internal political problems for the other fellow. New club members sometimes have to learn the rituals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Bonds of a Very Small Club | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...lyrics for the show, and Micheal Scubert, who composed the music, are familiar as the composer-writer team of A Little Knife Music, the Pudding show of two years ago. They describe their current opus as a mix "of the Romantic and the fantastic," set in Victorian times, and contend that, though some humor keeps it from breaking entirely out of the Pudding mold, the show has "much more than that going...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Breaks From Tradition | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...researchers contend that the substance creates new capillaries around a tumor, feeding it with a constant flow of blood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cancer Breakthrough | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

...what a perfect place. Los Angeles in the late 1940s. Growing faster than anyone could imagine, much less control, the city encouraged reckless passions and unclean souls. Money and sex ruled over millions of greedy and lusty supplicants. And the millions had to contend only with each other because the rest of the world--either by design or by default--had decided to let Los Angeles grow on its own. Winner take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Less Than Ethereal | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

...that the standard is inconsistent and impossible to apply fairly. If mental defects are exculpatory, asks Dr. Abraham Halpern, director of psychiatry at United Hospital in Port Chester, N.Y., why shouldn't heredity, poverty and cultural deprivations also be? Others, like University of Chicago Law Professor Norval Morris, contend that jurors cannot make much sense of the tortured language in the M'Naghten and Brawner rules. "Even the so-called experts don't understand them," says Morris. Instead of acquitting defendants with mental problems, some scholars would prefer to have a judge convene a post-trial panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Picking Between Mad and Bad | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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