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...problem was that he kept looking behind their transgressions, which were frequently ugly, vicious, mindless, to the poverty and brutality of their lives, their social handicaps, the system that doomed them from birth because they were black or foreign or the spawn of poor white families...So he had quit a step ahead of being fired for having the worst prosecutory track record in the state and opened his own office to defend the very people he had formerly prosecuted...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: Exhuming the '60s | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

...reunion will also spawn a publication, Women's Law Journal, which may at first be published annually, Kuehl said...

Author: By Stephen Bates, | Title: Law Students To Salute Women of'53 | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

...wires, a shuffling of wood and sand, and maybe, just maybe, the sound of something human. A woman coos in a muted voice, as if she were speaking through bed sheets. A man wails deep; his anguish, supposedly lashed to a sexual moment, is only the synthetic spawn of the recording studio--artificial, abstract. A chorus of women chant undecipherable orisons to some street-wise goddess of love. Their voices are synchronized to a single, thin line; you can't tell if there are three, ten, or thirty women singing...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Hougan says, with 385 potential military conflicts that may come up by 1990, 145 of them involving the United States, and one, by god, involving the Army versus the American citizenry. We are almost assured of running out of oil by the year 2000, a crisis that will spawn countless other crises and lead to the collapse of American society. The land is full of false prophets preaching evil gospels. The question is not so much how or when The End will come--it's inevitable that something crucial will break down soon--but what we should do while waiting...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Decline and Fall | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Mike Lynch does not exactly evoke any memories of former Harvard kicking greats Charlie Brickley (1912-14), Richie Szaro (1968-70) or Bruce Tetirick (1971-73). Nor does he spawn any comparisons with Brown's present kicker Jose Violante, who is threatening to break Brickley's New England career field goal record...

Author: By William E. Stedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 10/17/1975 | See Source »

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