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Noting that Sirica's comment on Mitchell was not said in front of the jury, most of the experts see little harm done. That may have been "a dumb thing to do," observes Columbia Law School Dean Michael Severn, but Sirica's remark does not constitute the "provable deep prejudice" required for reversal. As for Sirica's praise of defense attorneys in grilling Dean, Yale Law Dean Abraham S. Goldstein views it as "a jocular remark" by a tired judge who let himself "be seduced into this spirit of courtroom camaraderie." Said in the presence...
Seven of the defendants, who claim they were in danger of bodily harm when they opened fire on student demonstrators, accompanied the jurors to Kent State last week. None seemed particularly happy to be back on campus. "It certainly brought back a lot of unpleasant memories," said Barry Morris, 30, of Kent. Added another defendant, James D. McGee, 28, of Ravenna, Ohio: "I'll be glad to leave here...
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...anaesthesia without knowing whether they will wake up breastless or not. Surgeons defend this practice on the ground that it reduces both the risk and the expense of two operations. Even so, some women would rather know beforehand what they face, and some surgeons agree that there is no harm in waiting a few days between a biopsy and a mastectomy. "A cancer isn't going to grow that much in a day or two," says Robbins. "But if a woman decides to go surgeon shopping and delays a couple of weeks, she's taking her life...
...purpose of the law. What appears to be more pressing to members of the Faculty and the administration is that students will also have access to their recommendations; that this access will lead to a lack of candor by professors; and that this lack of candor, in turn, will harm the student in the long...