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Some news events command immediate attention. Others require months or even years to take shape. The changing application of the Constitution's due-process clause is such an evolving story, and this week's Law section examines the trend in depth. The story was written by Contributing Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, who has been our principal Law writer since 1968. "One of the Law section's goals," says Ferrer, "is to show how people's day-to-day lives may be affected by even subtle changes in legal practice. In the case of due process...
...free could shape up as a close race with Mitchell and Penn's Ted Kriebel within a second or two of each other, but Harvard's Tim Neville is a strong favorite in the 50-yd. free. The 100-yd. free will probably go to Mitchell, but Kriebel or Atkinson, both of whom swam superb legs on a botched Penn 400-yd. free relay in Harvard's 58-55 upset win last year, could...
...Middle East deserves priority rating for several reasons. One is that the U.S. and other Western nations are suffering from an energy crisis that threatens to deplete their oil supplies; the Arab nations control much of the world's oil reserves-a factor that must shape foreign policy planning to some extent. Beyond that, the Middle East is a logical area in which to extend the Nixon-Kissinger doctrine of peace through power balances, especially since the Soviet Union is also a presence in the region. "After Nixon's success in Viet Nam," said an Israeli diplomat last...
...playwright issues a challenge of some kind. The audience gives a positive or negative response. The nature of the challenge tends to shape the nature of the encounter, and the challenges may vary a great deal...
...hours were spent dissecting the adhesions of scar tissue left by an earlier operation in New York to correct an intestinal blockage. Only then was Suruga able to snip out an eight-inch section of jejunum (the upper part of the small intestine) and to fashion it into the shape of a U (see diagram). Next he trained his surgical microscope, working at 20-to 40-power magnification, on the minuscule bile ducts. He exposed them, and with incredibly fine needlework sewed one branch of the U over them like a funnel. He sutured the other branch...