Word: questioned
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Trial by jury. The very phrase is so much a part of the American pattern that it hardly seems open to question. Indeed, the Sixth Amendment guarantees that right to an accused in federal court. Yet in a dozen states the defendant is left to the mercy of a judge in cases where there would be no question of his right to a federal jury. Last week the Supreme Court brought those states into line...
...into Manhattan's Frumkin Gallery this week, he will find a partner in bemusement. Hung by two wires from the ceiling is a large plywood artist's palette, smeared with paint and with a paintbrush affixed to it. On the palette, in black plastic letters, is the question: "What's It All Mean...
Columnist Jimmy Breslin greets the ethics question with typical cynicism: "It's all a game," he says about the matter of protecting sources. "Nobody's telling you nothing he doesn't want to see in print. They say, 'Don't print it' and they mean 'Print it.' So I say I won't, and I mean I will. Flimflam has gotta be met with equal flimflam. I don't regard anything as private-as long as I'm talking to public people...
...Belmont Stakes by 20 lengths and set a world's record. But for the past six years, while a new $30.7 million grandstand was being built, Belmont has existed only as a practice track, and its classic races have been run elsewhere. The worrisome question to track enthusiasts: when Belmont reopens, will it be the same...
Though General Eisenhower himself complained that Monty was a prickly and secretive subordinate, and General Omar Bradley accused him of being too cautious, nobody can question that he won an overwhelming victory at El Alamein. And while the British had numerical superiority in men and tanks, it was no staged battle that was fought on the hot desert sands. It was a nightmarish engagement that was won eventually with British guts and skill. Even Rommel himself was appalled by the fierceness of the fighting. He wrote: "Rivers of blood were poured out over miserable strips of land which, in normal...