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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...
...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...
...first call comes in before 9. "Army opportunities, Sergeant Yasenak. May I help you?" A young woman, looking for the number of the Navy recruiter. "Sure, sure, no problem." The next one, a bona fide Army prospect, is guided to the office by way of a teen-age landmark, Taco Time, about 150 yds. away. When Yasenak gets a local collect call, a regular thing, he looks knowing and amused: the Washington State Penitentiary is in Walla Walla, and inmates must reverse all phone charges. "The guy said, Take me, I'm yours!' " He will...
...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...