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...reason for such fatalism is that American assassins have generally not been political foes whose acts might be anticipated but psychotics or social misfits who kill for bizarre and unpredictable reasons. Says Robert Delaney, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and an expert on terrorists: "The most frustrating thing is that you are dealing with a randomness. There is no knowing when, how or if." Or why or who. Researchers say that assassins in U.S. history have typically been short, white, unmarried men with mental disturbances dating from their childhood. True, but both attempts on Ford...
Burger's judicial philosophy is not easily discerned. He does not have a broad vision of the court as an instrument for social reform. Nor is he particularly concerned with "judicial restraint" or the limits of the court's power. Rather, observes Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, "Burger votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example...
...phiants like Marshall Harlan, whose clearly articulated views of the Constitution and the role of the court gave other Justices a standard around which to rally or against which to react. ''There are no strong philosophical bents on this court,'' says University of Virginia Law Professor...
...Office of the Arts, as it is today, Mayman explains, was spawned by two events: the merger and by the recommendations of Bok's 1973 committee to review the state of the arts at the University. The committee, headed by James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, suggested that the presidents create an office which might eliminate the "confusion and diffusion" of the arts at the newly merged schools...
...achieve the pleasant combination, both college Presidents in 1973 appointed the Committee to Consider Aspects of the Harvard-Radcliffe Relationship that Affect Administrative Arrangements, Admissions, Financial Aid and Educational Policy, to do just that. Karl Strauch, Leverett Professor of Physics chaired the panel--simply called the "Strauch Committee"--composed of admissions personnel and alumni from both colleges, administrators and students. The Strauch Committee met several times between February 1974 and 1975, to draw its conclusion that because the separate admissions policies were so similar, Harvard and Radcliffe could easily combine admissions. The group noted that with the exception...