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Noting that Sirica's comment on Mitchell was not said in front of the jury, most of the experts see little harm done. That may have been "a dumb thing to do," observes Columbia Law School Dean Michael Severn, but Sirica's remark does not constitute the "provable deep prejudice" required for reversal. As for Sirica's praise of defense attorneys in grilling Dean, Yale Law Dean Abraham S. Goldstein views it as "a jocular remark" by a tired judge who let himself "be seduced into this spirit of courtroom camaraderie." Said in the presence...
...dean of Columbia University's Law School is a skillful labor mediator (earlier this year he helped resolve a dispute that could have led to a transit strike) as well as an imaginative educator (he has proposed a program in which students will serve as apprentice lawyers). Severn was summa cum laude at Columbia, took his law degree there before joining the faculty in 1957. After the spring riots in 1968, he helped establish a university senate that has kept the campus cool ever since. Two years later he was appointed dean. Although he avoids politics...
...evidence" in the transcripts that Nixon was guilty of inducing his aides to commit perjury and of obstructing justice?both indictable crimes and therefore impeachable offenses by Nixon's own definition. Kurland added: "I can't find either ambiguity or any evidence which tends to exonerate him." Dean Michael Severn of Columbia University Law School looked closely at the transcript for the crucial March 21, 1973, meeting at which, Nixon later said, he learned for the first time that White House aides were deeply enmeshed in Watergate. Sovern concluded: "In context, the transcript would support a prima facie case...
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES once again pits simians against mankind in the fifth installment of a series that with any luck will not include a sixth. The humans are the scarred survivors of nuclear disaster, led by Severn Darden as the kind of consciously hammy villain that kids love to giggle at during the Saturday matinee. The apes make a curiously pallid bunch of heroes. Roddy McDowall, a veteran of three other Ape epics, appears as Caesar, the idealistic ape who led his species out of bondage to man with a few fiery speeches and some sensible...
Gaining momentum, the varsity crushed Navy the next Saturday in the Adams Cup on the Severn River. The just-under-two-length victory over the host Middies gave the Crimson its second straight Adams Cup and a 20-8-8 edge over Pennsylvania and Navy in the series. Penn did not compete in this season's race due to a conflict with exams...