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Among other things, the Law School has increased its clinical education program, which focuses on field work. Under the program, law students actually practice, either in simulated situations or in a legal aid center in Jamaica Plain...
...those that lie ahead. She writes: "One fine morning, I realized that the two feet I was standing on were not my own. Rectifying this awkward situation has taken a number of years and a lot of quiet screaming, noiseless foot stamping and what some peolle like to call plain hard work." Others are determined to carry on their self-evaluation until they too reach a point where they understand why they made the choices they did in 1956 and which options they should choose now. Together, they will join both the women who have found fullfillment purely...
...other, and they were not sure what to expect after Giscard's regal exit. As it turned out, François Mitterrand's inauguration attempted to set a deliberately plebeian tone. France's new Socialist President arrived at the Elysée Palace dressed in a plain, dark flannel suit and a red tie. On hand to greet him at the top of the steps of the presidential palace was Giscard, who, after a brief handshake, took his successor to his old corner office, overlooking the Elysée's lush gardens. There the two politicians...
Across much of the country, plunging temperatures brought record snowfalls and drifts as high as 15 ft. In some places, power cables were downed, vehicles were stalled, and hundreds of motorists were stranded-including a wedding party marooned for eleven hours aboard a bus on Salisbury Plain. In Scotland, a taxi driver, trapped by snow, burned half a tank of gas just to keep his cab warm, while he waited for assistance. Five schoolboys out on an endurance test were rescued after two nights on storm-swept Dartmoor; a medium had told police where to look. Horse racing, cricket...
...Institute provides legal services for the poor in Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, Roslindale, West Roxbury areas of the city which had no legal services at all before the Institute was established. In this area live over forty thousand people eligible for legal aid services, including one-quarter of Boston's elderly poor, one-fifth of its public housing residents, and substantial numbers of its poor Black and Hispanic residents. The $500,000 in federal funds allocated to the Institute goes toward the maintenance of an office and the salaries of a staff of five lawyers, three paralegals, four intake...