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Addressing about 50 people who were gathered at the Law School's Pound Hall last night, Ruth Friedman and Clive Stafford Smith, two attorneys from the Southern Prisoners' Defense Committee in Atlanta, recounted their experiences defending prisoners charged with capital crimes...
...newer the Supreme Court gets, the more hostile it gets to what we're doing," said Friedman. "It's really not [relevant]. These cases are really won and lost at the state court level...
...Instead, Friedman, who graduated from Yale Law School two years ago, talked mostly about how race affects the death penalty in Georgia and Alabama...
...circuit, where 20% of the comics are female, up from perhaps 2% a decade ago. Even that minuscule group used to give itself the short end of the shtick: "When I was born I was so ugly, the doctor slapped my mother." In comedy's Paleolithic era, notes Budd Friedman, impresario of Los Angeles' Improv comedy club, "stand-up was traditionally a white male enclave. But today there are no restrictions. Women are able to use their intelligence and their femininity and their strength to say what they want...
...physicist who laid the intellectual groundwork for this now mainstream theory, Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann, long ago won the Nobel Prize. But it was not until last week that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored the men who first detected the existence of quarks. Americans Jerome Friedman, 60, and Henry Kendall, 63, of M.I.T., and Richard Taylor, 60, a Canadian working at Stanford, share the physics award for discoveries made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in the late 1960s...