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...State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss. On a practical basis, they also gave both parties a share of the patronage...
...only goal of a "university" that has neither students nor classes, and conducts seminars that no one is obliged to attend. Now 36 years old, the Institute is a unique haven for scholars to think, ponder and grow wise, shielded from life's more mundane distractions and freed from normal academic obligations. "The one thing we will never ask you," Institute Director J. Robert Oppenheimer tells newcomers, is 'What are you doing...
This year was supposed to be different. The death last April of President Abdul Salam Aref removed the Kurds' most implacable foe. When his brother, Abdel Rahman Aref, took over, he called off plans for a new government offensive, declared that the Kurds were "our blood brothers." Aref freed five rebel leaders from house arrest and conceded two long-standing demands: a measure of local rule for Kurds, and Kurdish-language instruction in their schools. But Aref had a demand of his own. He wanted Rebel Chieftain Mullah Mustafa Barzani to disband his 15,000-man army, called pesh...
...fact, Nancy spent only about five hours in jail. Still fighting hard, Renga wasted no time obtaining a writ of beas corpus that freed Nancy on own recognizance until a higher court reviews her case this week. Whatever her fate, Judge Kearney has triggered public debate in California that is likely to rage for quite awhile...
...Gideon's famous victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, which earned for all American indigents the right to free trial counsel in felony cases. The decision applied retroactively to convicts who had been tried without lawyers, and, just as the lawmen expected, by 1965 Gideon v. Wainwright had freed more than 1,000 Florida prisoners. But predictions of a resultant crime wave, says the Florida Division of Corrections, have turned out to be all wrong...