Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to be heard on committees that change curriculums, shift degree requirements and grading practices. There is little doubt that they can make an immense contribution to such planning-and there is no question about the justice of their claim that many courses are, indeed, irrelevant. Harvard's law faculty is pleased with a student-initiated drive that liberalized its once-rigid curriculum, added numerous elective courses...
...Howard Leary insisted that force had been necessary because his men encountered "a good deal of resistance" in entering the buildings. A broader-and presumably more disinterested-study of the disturbances was being conducted by a five-man fact-finding committee appointed by the university and headed by Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox, former U.S. Solicitor General...
...order to vary the horses' performance and affect the betting odds. To stop that practice, every major racing state now requires that no trace of Butazolidin remain in a horse's system on the day of a race. Kentucky was the last state to pass such a law; it did so in 1962, two years after a long shot named Venetian Way, who was practically hooked on bute, scored an upset victory in the Derby...
From a horseman's standpoint, the trouble with the law is that no one knows for sure just how long Butazolidin will remain in a particular animal's system. Most veterinarians consider 72 hours the normal outside limit, but there are recorded cases in which horses have tested positive for Butazolidin as long as 84 hours after receiving the medication...
...takes the form of a series of monologues ranted by a patient at his psychoanalyst. The patient is a 34-year-old bachelor named Alexander Portnoy, high-school honor student from Newark, first in his law-school class, and now assistant human-rights commissioner in New York City. At first glance, the chronicle of Portnoy's pain, rooted as it is in Jewishness and the urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent...