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...chance to charge sexism. In a situation where she feels her opinion is not being taken seriously, she explains with a small laugh, "The fact that I am a woman would not occur to me as the first possibility. I'd be much more worried had I done my homework, had I really prepared for this, am I being silly? But am I a woman? That would not come in as a very early question...
Publicly, the Independents have all but igonored Cambridge Convention '75, but about a half hour before the polls closed yesterday, Sullivan acknowledged that the group "had certainly done its homework...
...Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr., 43, a relative newcomer to the bench but a man with a reputation for doing his legal homework, confronts the most difficult kind of decision any judge can face, a decision with a life in the balance. Because it deals with some of the most fundamental aspects of human existence, the Quinlan case has become the focus of increasing attention from doctors, lawyers and moral thinkers (TIME, Sept. 29 and Oct. 27), but it is up to Muir alone to rule whether there is a point beyond which life need no longer be preserved...
...Muir intends to make his decision next week. It will probably be the toughest question that has ever faced the 43-year-old jurist, who specialized in municipal law before his appointment to the bench in 1971. "He is cool, and very balanced," says one observer. "He does his homework and weighs everything very carefully." Judge Muir will have plenty of weighing to do, for the courts have generally been reluctant to make life and death decisions. Nonetheless, the question of whether the plug can be pulled is unlikely to disappear. And now that the issue has reached the courts...
Yale Coach Carmen Cozza just may have assigned George Allen's book on football as homework for his Bulldogs. Yale's defense forced three costly Colgate turnovers in the first half. Linebacker John Smoot recovered two fumbles and picked off an errant Red Raider pass to set up three Eli scores...