Word: indigentes
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Martin Erdmann looks like anything but a rebel lawyer. His hair is close-cut, his collar white and button-down, his tie narrow, his suit oldfashioned. Handling documents with nicotine-stained fingers and chain-smoking Lucky Strikes, Erdmann, 57, could pass for a run-of-the-mill judicial factotum behind...
Even Bailey was taken by surprise at the speedy decision, though he quickly broke into a broad smile at what he called a "thumping acquittal." Medina stood, slightly stoop-shouldered while the verdict was read, then hastily downed a glass of water. He avoided looking at his wife Barbara, who...
During the past six years, however, the Establishment has seemed to the students less a haven to be penetrated than an adversary to be challenged. U.D. law has developed a social consciousness rivaling that of many better-known institutions. Detroit's students have fought for new rights for impoverished...
No proper tour of America in the 1830s would have been complete without a visit to a penitentiary. European governments even dispatched special envoys to observe what was then called "a grand theater, for the trial of all new plans in hygiene and education, in physical and moral reform." The...
Some cities, including Boston, Philadelphia and New York, built almshouses for the indigent, but they were not institutions in the 19th and 20th century sense. In structure and routine, they were extensions of the colonial family. Even jails for debtors or those awaiting trial were homey places. Escapes were so...