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-- Why? In what way did Ginsburg or Gore or Claiborne Pell (a one-time, four- puff penitent) do wrong? The most obvious answer is that they willfully broke a law. True. But if what is at stake is respect for law, why the agitation about this particular law out of...
In 1948, Christina's World -- Wyeth's landscape of a farmhouse, a hill and the tortured girlish figure at the hill's base -- became an indelible part of postwar America's visual vocabulary and made the 31-year-old son of Illustrator N.C. Wyeth a star. As it happens, Christina...
As Rolf Mengele told it in the Bunte story, the first time he met his father was on a skiing vacation in Switzerland in 1956, when the twelve-year-old boy stayed at a mountain hotel with an affable uncle called Helmut Gregor. Three years later, said Rolf, he discovered...
Eastman's position draws upon a firmly based heritage. The protection of the clergy-penitent relationship rests on "one of the more basic privileges," says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller-as strong or stronger than the similar claims to confidentiality between lawyer and client or doctor and patient. The...
In all U.S. legal history, only about 100 cases have involved efforts to abrogate the clergy-penitent privilege, says the Rev. John C. Bush, head of the Kentucky Council of Churches and the co-author of The Right to Silence: Privileged Clergy Communication and the Law. Bush adds that no...