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...JUSTIN KAPLAN...
...term only begins to describe Lincoln Steffens. Biographer Justin Kaplan does the rest with the same clarity, critical intelligence and warm grip on the American past that he demonstrated in his Pulitzer-prizewinning biography of Mark Twain. Lincoln Steffens appears at a time when the achievements of his particular brand of muckraking, like that of Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Ray Stannard Baker, are all but forgotten. Today is the age of megamuck and a more sophisticated breed of raker. With the exception of Watergate, the corrective campaigns of S.S. McClure's magazine, where Steffens and his colleagues launched...
...supercharged, fuel-injected future, the first bar of justice for alleged lawbreakers is quaintly called, in a reminiscence of 14th century England, Recorder's Court. Little beyond its name is Chaucerian. Until recently it was a paradigm of judicial systems crumbling under the burden of civic decay. Justin Ravitz, now a judge of Recorder's Court, once described it as "the cesspool of the legal world...
...Oyez." The last vestiges of court formality disappeared with the installation in 1972 of Justin Ravitz, 33, an avowed Marxist. When he was sworn in, with cowboy boots projecting from under his robe, Ravitz remained seated during the Pledge of Allegiance. It was, he said, a farce, because there is no "liberty and justice for all." When Ravitz enters court there is no cry of "Oyez, oyez, oyez!" and the assemblage does not rise...
...second time in three Christmases, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau received the same present from his wife Margaret; a son. On Christmas Day 1971 Justin Pierre was born. This Christmas Day Alexandre Emmanuel arrived. Two days after taking Justin to the hospital in Ottawa to see his brother, Trudeau announced the name of his newborn son. He said he had selected Emmanuel (Hebrew for God with us), while his wife had chosen Alexandre, "after the saint, the Czar or the Pope-take the one you want," joked Trudeau, adding that the baby would be known simply...