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...imply that people with Hodgkin's disease are 1) infectious and 2) incurable is to make them modern-day parallels to the lepers of yesterday. Any physician well experienced with this disease knows many patients who are alive, well and free of any evidence of it several years after treatment. Furthermore, if one considers the number of people who have been closely related to Hodgkin's patients for many years but do not have the disease, it is at least as impressive as the evidence presented in your article...
...example of Fuld's reasoning was a 1957 opinion in which he re-examined the legal tradition of stare decisis (precedent decides). If it is argued, he wrote, "that stare decisis compels us to perpetuate a rule-out of tune with the life around us, at variance with modern-day needs and with concepts of justice and fair dealing-a ready answer is at hand. The rule of stare decisis was intended not to effect a petrifying rigidity, but to assure the justice that flows from certainty and stability. If, instead, adherence to precedent offers not justice but unfairness...
...knights and highwaymen, Robin Hood and Superman, capes were no mere fashion. They were a way of life. Romance and adventure might as well have been sewn into the lining: the style guaranteed them. Modern-day versions have even more to offer, with a choice of colors, fabrics and assorted flourishes undreamed of in the days of chivalry. For women this winter, capes are clearly the most popular way to cover up since face powder...
Until equal admissions is achieved, there will simply be no way around the disparity between the coed Houses and their celibate brothers. To accept that situation is not so much to force Harvard's adopted women into the role of modern-day Lysistratas as to face up to the inequitable admissions ratio...
...others have noted that Kathere-vousa is as akin to the Age of Pericles as it is to modern-day Greece. Anti-junta activists charge that its use is intended to spread the official view that the colonels are restoring ancient glory to Greece, and that it severely retards the education of those children who are taught...