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Since the March 1970 Resolution was adopted, the CRR has operated without student representatives. Students brought before the CRR faced faculty members--not their peers--and a process of justice that would shock the most conservative jurist...
Frankel was moved by the general legal maxim for all-risk insurance: whatever is not clearly excluded is covered. Still, as the jurist wryly admitted, "judges are commissioned to be fallible." Especially in $24,288,759 cases. The guerrilla army of lawyers, who by now have charged an estimated $1,000,000 in fees, have already begun sorting through Frankel's 128 pages of opinion and 56 footnotes as they prepare to fight anew in the appeals court...
...people. "There is no community in Argentina," laments H. A. Murena, a noted Argentine novelist. "We do not form a body, though we may form a conglomeration. Instead of stability, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos, periodically illuminated by coups d'état." Adds Eduardo Roca, an eminent jurist and diplomat: "Argentina has no soul...
...Because doctors have no totally accurate way of judging the strength of bone while it knits, they often immobilize broken limbs longer than necessary. Overtime in traction could soon be eliminated, however. John Jurist, a biophysicist, and Dr. Edmund Markey, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, are experimenting with a technique that could enable physicians to determine with precision whether a bone is strong enough to bear weight. So far, their research has focused exclusively on a long leg bone, the tibia, to which a vibrating machine is attached. After the bone is vibrated at various...
...bombers to hit unauthorized targets. More light may soon be cast on the question by the witness of an eight-man international team that last week flew from Moscow for a two-week fact-finding trip through North Viet Nam. Among its members: Sean McBride, the respected Irish jurist who is head of Amnesty International, and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark...