Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Making that kind of connection is more difficult for most veterans. Often they hunt for the side of a hill, a particular hedgerow or some other now inconspicuous landmark that is burned in their memories. Two Canadians found the precise corner of a pasture they remembered near Arromanches. No trace of war remained. But digging into the soft earth, the two men finally uncovered a rusted Canadian helmet. A former U.S. sergeant spent an entire day looking for the house where he had knocked out a German machine gun. When he found it, he cried, "That is why I came...
...constitutional right to effective legal representation in criminal cases. But last week the court finally set forth its guiding principles and swept away a variety of state and lower federal court standards that had grown up in the absence of a firm ruling from the high bench. The landmark that David Washington helped establish, however, did not save him. His death sentence stands...
...concept on campus: fun. The fieldhouse has been refurbished. Student theater and music groups are flourishing. A winter carnival is now established as an annual event. Called Kuvia-sungnerk, an Eskimo word for happiness, the festival this year included a pajama brunch and a three-mile walk to a landmark spot along the Lake Michigan shore known as "the Point." Two weeks ago, the deans inaugurated a student-faculty contest day, featuring softball games at which President Gray threw out the first ball...
...Lecherous Professor is a landmark work not only because it is the first comprehensive and fully analytic study of an increasingly volatile problem, but also because it moves beyond the mere of outrage. Along with gathering facts, figures and examples of harassment, it also scrutinizes the structure of universities and the academic life style in general to try to determine him so seemingly shocking an occurrence--a professor coercing a student with the use of sexual pressure--can in fact be so pervasive. As Dzeich and Weiner understand, it is not enough simply to cry. "Faculty harassers are evil, universities...
...Rochester, N.Y., Libel Attorney John McCrory: "We were all terribly worried that the court was ready to repudiate Sullivan by abandoning it as a standard, or eroding it." That, says Lawyer Abrams, would have "changed the world in terms of libel." Instead, he said, the court has produced a "landmark decision" preserving a law that "seemed in jeopardy...