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Dalgleish joins a long line of detective heroes, from Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn. Like his predecessors, he is an educated investigator and a deeply sensitive individual. Unlike earlier detectives, he is a professional policeman, a published poet, and he harbors a secret tragedy--early in his career, his wife died in childbirth. He avoids romance and even short-term affairs...
Massachusetts Court of Appeals Justice Roderick Ireland said judges are overworked, often acting as the only bridge between social service agencies and the legal system...
Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar, who chaired the subcommittee that recommended Oi's tenure to the government department, said he was "disappointed, very disappointed" with the decision...
...been a sense--this may be a slightly romantic view of my colleagues--that Harvard students are on the whole sensible enough and bright enough to be able to pick through the very considerable range of offering which they have," says Williams Professor of History and political Science Roderick MacFarquhar...
...charges brought against a Catholic priest was dropped when the accuser of Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin admitted on Feb. 28 that he was not positive that the abuse, which he had remembered under hypnosis, had actually occurred. However, the church still faces hundreds of lawsuits around the country. Roderick MacLeish Jr., a Boston lawyer involved in civil actions against alleged child abusers, claims that of the 400 active cases handled by his firm, 250 involve clergy -- and the vast majority of them belong to the Catholic Church...