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...Kaplan had the honor of scoring the decisive 14th match point. He rebounded from a 3-1 deficit to skewer his epee opponent, 5-4, seconds before foilman Dave Hanower concluded his bout victoriously...
...Bird maintained that she was doing no more than deferring to the meaning given great bodily injury by popularly elected lawmakers. "Personal repugnance toward these crimes cannot be a legitimate basis for rewriting the statute as it was adopted by the legislature," she wrote. Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan agrees: "Rape, in itself, shouldn't be bodily harm. I think that's what the legislature meant. There's a whole line of cases about this...
Many states lack the resources to protect witnesses. John Kaplan, a Stanford Law School professor, suggests another alternative: speedier trials and stiffer bail. "The longer the delay, the more likely the witness will be intimidated. Our lenient bail practices have not helped," says Kaplan, noting that they put the accused back on the street, where he can seek out his accusers. Some district attorneys have proposed a starkly realistic solution: compulsory pretrial depositions, which roughly means getting a witness's testimony quickly on the record. That way, Boston Special Assistant D.A. Thomas Dwyer explains, "if the witness is murdered...
...must make certain that the psychic separation of mother and child actually takes place. Mother and the baby "play dangerously on the brink of not being able to separate," and without an active father, the baby may grow up to be a dependent, adult-sized infant. But, says Kaplan, "mother is the one partner with whom the baby plays out the separation drama...
...wrong way to rear a baby. Much of the child's moodiness and aggression is the result of ordinary development, so parents should not feel guilty if things seem to go badly for a time. "The strivings to become an individual are built into the baby," says Kaplan. "Just become attuned to them -that's about all you need...