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...unanimous. Justice Harry Blackmun, in a dissent dear to champions of the rights of mentally impaired defendants, wrote that ``a defendant who is utterly incapable of conducting his own defense cannot be considered `competent' to make such a decision, any more than a person who chooses to leap out of a window in the belief that he can fly.'' It is quite possible that for the next few months, auditors of the Long Island trial will be treated to the dubious spectacle of the gesticulations such a person makes--before he hits the ground...
Because Deng's stature in life has been so monumental, his absence in death cannot help reverberating long after he is gone. His has been the authority that held together the two contradictory strands of Chinese life. Even as he spurred the great leap toward a free-market economy, Deng was able to keep China's political system firmly in the hands of an ever more sclerotic Communist Party. When he finally dies, the relative strength of these competing systems will hang in the balance. "No one can replace him," explains a European diplomat. "There aren't many people...
Yimou traces the course of a common man's life during the difficult times of the Chinese Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. For the first time, Yimou concentrates on the story and allows the visuals to follow...
They say we're a race of orally compulsive piggies. At least this seems to be the going explanation for America's latest leap into pandemic obesity -- 33% of U.S. adults 20 years of age or older are estimated to be overweight. It almost doesn't matter what we eat, the obesity experts say. Give us low-fat foodstuffs, and we'll binge on them in megacalorie doses; turn your back for a moment, and we'll be scarfing down a Mallomar or whatever other substance comes to hand. What we really need is love, according to the mass-neurosis...
...community. The Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) is one way to make students' concerns heard: UHS also has a Patient Advocate to investigate complaints. Unfortunately for UHS, it is all too trendy nowadays to publicly create and decry the ineptitude of our health service, and in an even greater leap of logic, to cast it as mirroring a general health care crisis in the United States...