Word: davision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed -- writ large.
The dilemma might have stumped even King Solomon: what to do with seven fertilized eggs of a divorcing Tennessee couple that are frozen at an in-vitro fertilization clinic in Knoxville. Mary Sue Davis, 29, is unable to conceive by natural means and wants custody of her "pre-born children...
Last week in Maryville, Tennessee Circuit Court Judge W. Dale Young announced his decision in the unprecedented case: the embryos are people, not property, and should go to the mother. In an opinion loaded with some of the coded language that often surrounds abortion controversies, Young ruled that "human life...
"If the name of the game is to make the houses interchangeable, I don't see the point there--it is nice for the houses to have certain flavors," Winthron House Master James A. Davis said.
"The students like it, the masters like it--they are proud of their distinctiveness," Davis said. Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem agreed with Davis.