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After deliberating for 30 hours, the jury last week convicted the five defendants: Joseph J. Aiuppa, 78, the Chicago Mafia boss; John Cerone, 71, Joseph Lombardo, 57, and Angelo LaPietra, 65, all of Chicago; and Cleveland Mob Leader Milton J. Rockman, 71. Each could be sentenced to 40 years in jail. Chicago FBI Chief Edward Hegarty called the convictions of the Midwest's top mobsters, along with earlier guilty pleas of Mob leaders in Kansas City, "the most significant prosecution of organized-crime figures in the history of the U.S." An even bigger Mafia trial is to start next March...
...Conference last week in Phoenix, which was billed by its organizers as "probably the largest gathering ever devoted to the practice of psychotherapy." Part trade show, part ecumenical conference, the meeting drew participants from 29 countries and dozens of therapeutic splinter groups. Jeffrey Zeig, the director of Phoenix's Milton H. Erickson Foundation, which helped sponsor the event, counted 15 major schools of thought on the program, plus Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist who does not believe that mental illness even exists...
...kept in place until the patient's condition stabilizes and a donor organ is found. Surgeons can now choose among several types of pumps. While Gaidosh received the familiar Jarvik-7, Mandia's surgery marked the debut of the Penn State heart, developed by Surgeon William Pierce of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for temporary use only and is designed to overcome the blood-clotting problems that have plagued Jarvik-7 recipients. Dallara, meanwhile, was connected to a pair of external pumps called ventricular assist devices, which are ordinarily...
That these student eyewitnesses were not able speak to special master Milton Katz '27 is partly the fault of the students themselves. Katz's number is in the phone book, and they could have easily contacted him. "I was happy to talk to anybody who wanted to speak to me," said Katz...
...Condors are far more interesting, perhaps because narrative quickens in the presence of evil and strife. John Milton faced such a problem when he portrayed Satan in Paradise Lost, and Le Guin, working on a different level, explicitly acknowledges the dilemma. One of the chorus of voices in the book belongs to Pandora, who seems to represent both the character from Greek mythology and contemporary Western consciousness. Through the magic of time travel, Pandora converses with a Kesh woman librarian. These enlightened people routinely throw away books and documents. As the dialogue continues, Pandora grows frustrated. "I never did like...