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...most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan, as the strep-stricken Notre Dame halfback George Gipp, insisted on going to Illinois to play the Big Game against Northwestern. He made the do-or-die try, and sure enough-in a scene worth three wet handkerchiefs-he died soon afterward...
...There was confusion between brainwashing and coercion. Coercion is when a person does something against his will because he's terrified. Brainwashing is when a person tries to become and to will what somebody else is and wants. It was not clear what the defense wanted to say." Northwestern Law Professor Jon Waltz agreed. "On the one hand, Patty is supposed to be brainwashed," he said. "On the other, she's under duress. There's something vaguely inconsistent in that approach...
Given the differences over motivation and real guilt, what is Patty's sentence likely to be? Northwestern's Waltz speculated that Carter "would have to sentence her to time," but not to a term as harsh as, say, ten years. Zimring predicted a light sentence-or none at all. Yet he was troubled by his prediction. "What was there about the situation," he wondered, "that makes us all terribly unwilling to punish and yet creates such confidence in guilt...
...finished in the middle of his class at Princeton, then flunked out of Harvard Law School. That embarrassing event was not brought up in two presidential campaigns because the dean, a Stevenson admirer, kept the proof locked in his personal safe. But after earning a law degree from Northwestern University, Stevenson embarked with gusto on a career of public service...
Many believe that safety valve is creating unacceptable pressure elsewhere, notably in federal-state judicial relations. A federal habeas petition can be brought only after pursuing an appeal up through the top state court. Complains Northwestern Law Professor Fred Inbau: "The right of one federal judge to overrule five or seven state supreme court justices is just nonsensical. We have to call a halt to it." At last week's arguments before the Supreme Court, one lawyer for Convict Rice tried to counter that view; he argued that the "state courts' primary allegiance is to guarantee enforcement...