Word: leon
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...size, shape and distribution of blood spatters tells much about the location and position of a person Involved in a crime and thus may dispute a defendant's version of what happened. Blood that travels at an angle, for example, leaves an elliptical stain. Consultant Herbert Leon MacDonell, 53, of Corning, N.Y., the leading expert, is now sought out in more than 100 homicide cases a year. At the trial of Jean Harris last year he tried to persuade the jury-unsuccessfully-that blood marks jibed with Harris' claim that the shooting of Dr. Herman Tarnower occurred accidentally...
...Reagan's request last year to lump many domestic programs into block grants, a much less ambitious plan than the current one to turn back responsibility and money to the states, foundered on the rocks of the committee system, where it encountered resistance from both parties. As Democrat Leon Panetta of California points out: "The committee chairmen, who are the fathers of these social programs, will not be at all eager to see them terminated...
...serious investigation, a matter that requires diligence and attention to detail." So said New York Attorney Leon Silverman last week after his appointment by a panel of federal judges as a special prosecutor to investigate the scandals swirling around Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan...
...rethink an egalitarian admissions philosophy. For more than a decade, open admissions attracted many talented people who might never have had the chance for a college education. But it also saddled many schools with students woefully unprepared to do college work. The cost of remedial education has skyrocketed. Says Leon Mayhew, vice chancellor for the University of California at Davis: "There are costs in the generic sense of money spent. The other cost is in the misdirection of talents in teaching." While some remedial programs hire specially trained teachers, many untenured-and frustrated-Ph.D.s find themselves teaching basic reading...
From the beginning, the new state was built on four interrelated means of control: centralized and absolute authority, bureaucracy, terror and militarism. Lenin's Commissar of War, Leon...