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...Flagrant Few. the The insurers' plan thus differs from the widely discussed reforms proposed by Law Professors Robert Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois. In most accident cases, their "Basic Protection" scheme calls for a motorist's own insurance company to pay him, his passengers and any pedestrians he hits, regardless of who was to blame for an accident. "We don't think it would be fair to eliminate the idea of fault completely," says the Alliance's Wise, "and require injured persons to insure themselves...
Second Wallet. It was a debatable judgment. Coram's deception was certainly no more flagrant than that of hundreds of other reporters who misrepresent themselves to get their stories. "Any good police reporter," says a Chicago city editor, "will get a story out of a policeman by posing as one of his ultimate superiors-a guy who is too highly placed for the patrolman to know whether he is talking to the deputy superintendent or not. It is not something the city desk can condone, exactly. But you don't ask how they got the story, either...
...stage with a desk chair (the third in the trio) to some very fine Scarlatti. Squirming under the chair, carrying it, carrying each other, stomping heartily to the music, the bespecatcled Miss Golod (whoever heard of a ballerina wearing glasses?) and the scruffy, blue-jeaned Mr. Mansbach made flagrant nonsense of both the old Master and the art of dance. It was a daring, enjoyable piece, summarizing the evening's offerings with appealing honesty and not a little sarcasm...
...awful to imagine that the flagrant, repeated opportunism of Robert Kennedy may be rewarded with the Democratic nomination. How can a nation of people searching for a rebirth of an idealism we once knew briefly believe, even momentarily, in a man who waits for someone else to test the bridge before walking across? It is cruel and tragic that McCarthy, a man of proven moral and intellectual values, a man who can and did stand firm in the face of possible disaster, may be defeated by the so-called magic of the Kennedy name and the synthetic charm of young...
...dated Feb. 7, 1937, he wrote that "means had to be found to save the Constitution from the Court, and the Court from itself." And as Annotator Freedman points out, he could salve his conscience "with the justified belief that his legal scholarship would save the President from more flagrant blunders...