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Although he was in Cambridge primarily for the competition, he also spoke on a recent landmark Supreme Court decision at a special session of Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice...
...Japanese ancestry from San Leandro, Calif. As a result, he was called a "Jap spy" in a newspaper headline, sentenced to five years' probation and removed to a detention camp. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction and the evacuation order, thereby enshrining his name as a legal landmark. Later, when many began to question the internment of 100,000 Japanese-American citizens, Korematsu vs. United States was known to jurists as a rare case in which the Supreme Court upheld the singling out of a racial minority for adverse treatment...
Until recently, such breast-sparing techniques were universally considered to be inadequate and dangerous. Today, the evidence is to the contrary. Last month, at a meeting at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., noted Italian Oncologist Umberto Veronesi presented the results of a landmark ten-year study comparing survival after a mastectomy with survival following a less disfiguring operation called quadrectomy (see diagram). His conclusion: "There is absolutely no difference...
Scanlon was described both by Benascerraf and Harvard professors as one of the leading think on working from the moderns "contraction" view of political philosophy originated by Rawis is his landmark book A Theory of Justice...
...liked to get behind the counter and whip up their own milkshakes. Gloria Swanson often dropped by in a chauffeur-driven limousine, and celluloid myth has it that Lana Turner was discovered there (she was not). Last week, 51 years after it opened its doors and became a tinseltown landmark, Schwab's drugstore dimmed its neon sign on Sunset Boulevard for the last time. Citing financial pressure and what he called a "family dispute," Leon Schwab, 72, the brother of Founder Jack, decided it was better to close than sell. For its many loyal patrons, news of the demise...