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Watching French Marxists grapple with the radical theories of Michel Foucault, says the philosopher's Translator Alan Sheridan, is like watching "a policeman attempting to arrest a particularly outrageous drag queen." The solemn specialists who patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become...
...presiding at the arraignment of Richard Martin, 32. Suddenly, Martin tried to escape. Finding the exit blocked, he headed for Arthur. Martin punched the judge in the face, drawing blood and sending him sprawling. Last year in a Chicago courtroom, Defendant Wayne Ellis grabbed a revolver from a policeman's holster, aimed it at Judge William Prendergast and pulled the trigger three times. Fortunately, the gun was empty...
...between last week's robbery and earlier crimes. Could the residue of the Weather Underground have been involved in bloody Brink's ambushes in The Bronx last June and in Brooklyn in December? Could they have had a hand in the killing of a New York City policeman in Queens last April? Or a role in Joanne Chesimard's 1979 escape from prison...
...proctors and a University policeman told the 72 students at a meeting Tuesday night that visitors should call their host to open the door for them. They also posted lists of security rules and procedures throughout the dorm, students who attended the meeting said yesterday...
...sentenced to death but died, presumably by his own hand, while on death row. In less dramatic cases, says Dr. Russell Monroe, chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, jurors often ask themselves: "Would the defendant have committed the crime if a policeman had been standing right beside...