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...following article was written by Fran R. Schumer with dispatches from Martha Shirk, an American journalist in Durban, South Africa...
...Harvard Law School Forum, promising "never to shirk or abdicate our vital and crucial responsibility to offer a place where even the most unusual and controversial of people and speakers can be seen and listened to at this great and prestigious law school and University," invites Thomas Stefanian, Cambridge restauranteur, to debate City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci on "By-zantine Hagiography: A Message for Our Times...
...might think the gallows cruel, Guinness proposed a more creative method of disposing of the condemned: give them razor blades in the hope that they would not use them merely to shave. Alternatively, he suggested dispensing anesthetic pills, to be followed by old-fashioned beheading. Never a man to shirk his public duty, Guinness even offered to wield the ax himself...
...week. Popkin was vacationing in the Virgin Islands with his wife, Susan Shirk...
...Susan Shirk, Popkin's wife, said yesterday that she was "surprised at his release," and that she fully expected him to be imprisoned until January 12, the grand jury's full expiration date. "It certainly will be a nicer Christmas," she added...