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That was only one of many Lipsig victories to result in new legal responsibilities for institutions, employers, manufacturers and municipalities. In a 1958 case involving Arnold Schuster, who was murdered after he had helped track down the celebrated bank robber Willie Sutton, Lipsig won a landmark ruling from the New York State Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. It opened up police to liability if they fail to provide reasonable protection for a person who assists a criminal apprehension or prosecution. Schuster's police protection had been withdrawn despite his pleas to have it continued...
Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court was resoundingly rejected last year in large part because the Senate feared Bork would push the Justices into overturning landmark decisions on civil rights. All the more reason for the uproar last April, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, who filled the vacant seat, joined a 5-to-4 court majority inviting reargument of a 1976 decision that allowed citizens to sue private institutions for damages resulting from racial discrimination...
...idea behind the landmark measure is to get people off relief by getting them into jobs. The bill requires that states provide job training, education and work for able-bodied welfare recipients, except those with children under the age of three. (States have the option of lowering that limit to age one.) To ensure the transition from handouts to breadwinning, states would have to provide child care for nine months and Medicaid for up to a year after the parent gets...
...Soviet Union, viewers got many more background stories than would normally be allowed on the tightly formatted evening news. The importance of summit coverage, contends NBC News President Lawrence Grossman, is "not in terms of specific agreements. The major issue is trying to give people a sense of the landmark changes taking place inside the Soviet Union." With budgets growing tighter, however, the networks will have to take a harder look at whether such reporting extravaganzas are justified as journalism, or merely as public relations...
...Landmark appointments have been slow to arrive. Graham came to Harvard 14 years ago and later became the University's first female dean when she assumed the helm of the Ed School. Last fall, Sally H. Zeckhauser became the University's first woman vice president. Still, only a handful of Harvard's top posts are held by women...