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...describes the American jury as the "conscience of the community." This "quixotic conscience," he says, sometimes reflects the best of what we stand for and other times the worst. Thus, in the '60s, all-white juries acquitted Klansmen who had murdered civil rights workers in the South and today, inner city juries acquit Black defendants charged with murdering law enforcement officials--a trend of minority distrust of police officers that was evident in the Kahane and Rosenbaum cases...
Robosurgery doesn't have to stop at the hip. In Europe, where officials are less squeamish about such things, robots have assisted in operations on the brain, the prostate and the inner...
...quick study and natural leader, Reich was elected student-government president at Dartmouth College. During the summers, he worked with inner-city youngsters, as an intern to Senator Robert Kennedy, as a campaign volunteer for Senator Eugene McCarthy. He met his future wife Clare Dalton, a Briton who now teaches law at Northeastern University in Boston, on his first day at Oxford. After returning from England and earning his law degree at Yale, Reich clerked for a federal appeals judge in Boston. He then worked for seven years in Washington, first as an assistant to Solicitor General Robert Bork, then...
...that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), the characters lack inner life. As the set suggests, they are pawns on a chessboard -- with no grand master in sight...
Rocking the boat would remind us we don't yet swim well. Thus our rhetoric keeps us on our narrow paths, keeps us in the inner ring--as C.S. Lewis called it. Even when we leave a conversation, we justify ourselves away. "Well, I really have to go now, I have so much work to do." Why not, "it was good talking, bye"? Where did delight...