Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of the loudest complaints against the Supreme Court is that it "frees criminals" almost every time it tightens state criminal procedures. But what actually happens when the court rules in favor of criminal appellants? A remarkable number are later reconvicted in state courts, winning only the honor of having...
Search & Seizure. In equally historic decisions, the court has forced all states to observe the full meaning of the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable search and seizure. Items: - Mapp v. Ohio (1961) ordered state courts to exclude evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment. With no warrant, Cleveland police...
Alabaster Soul. Now united again after 2,600 years and surrounded by statuary from his period, Psamtik's minister has regained his look of permanence. A closed form in lustrous alabaster, his presence is pounded out of stone with a mallet as if hacked from timelessness by human persistence...
The plan froze each department at its historic size" and then calculated how long a professor stays active--an average of 34 years. By dividing the latter figure by the allotted number of places in a department, it is possible to determine how often new appointments may be made.
Fontainebleau is a town 35 miles south of Paris, famous for its cheese, its forest, its historic chateau, and a 400-year-old monastery. Lately it has also become important to international business as the site of what is probably Europe's best business school, the Institut Europé...