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The early days of the Great Society witnessed a host of legislative initiatives. There was Medicare for the elderly; Medicaid for the indigent; Head Start for preschoolers. There was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Job Corps. The Model Cities program. Of greater political significance were the promulgation and...
"What the Supreme Court is saying now is states have got remarkably better at guaranteeing certain liberties," says Ira Robbins, a habeas corpus specialist at Washington's American University law school. In the state courthouses, where the trials are held, however, the guarantee of competent counsel looks rather threadbare. Some...
Presley filed a federal suit, charging that the holdovers had violated Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision requires officials in the covered states to "preclear" changes they want to make "with respect to voting rights" with the U.S. Justice Department before putting them into effect...
Another enticing finding reported last January established a link between folic acid and prevention of cervical cancer. According to a study at the University of Alabama's medical school, women who have been exposed to a virus that causes this cancer are five times as likely to develop precancerous lesions...
Syrita Davey, dressed in a white blouse, purple skirt, hoop earrings, sits with her son in a noisy, claustrophobic interview room. Law student Harry Kassap, a volunteer in the public defender's office, listens to the boy's story. The defender's office, which represents indigent youthful offenders, usually has...