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...Constitution requires a grand jury indictment before some one can be prosecuted for a major federal offense; 24 states have a similar requirement for serious violations of their laws. At grand jury hearings, conducted in secret, the prosecutor runs the show: he has broad leeway to offer evidence, summon witnesses and make arguments. A witness or "target" can invoke his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination, but in most states he cannot bring his lawyer in to the grand jury room. Even where he can, the lawyer is powerless to do much more than tell his client to keep quiet...
...quite a challenge, given that the collaborators spent most of their time 155 miles apart, with Edwards teaching physiology at Cambridge and Steptoe practicing obstetrics in the northwestern mill town of Oldham. Sometimes, when one of Steptoe's patients was about to ovulate, the doctor would have to summon his partner by phone. Edwards would then jump into his car and charge down the old country roads to Oldham. Once there, the two would remove the egg and mate it with sperm without wasting a moment; by the time Lesley Brown became their patient, they could perform the procedure...
When the minutiae were beyond her, she did not hesitate to summon one of her lawyers from the wings, and later an accountant. As the accountant started whispering information to her, she showed impeccable instincts: "Irwin," she asked, "why don't you tell them?" She described intimate family decisions to explain some of her actions. In 1971, after her husband's brother and father had died of cancer in quick succession, Zaccaro suggested she get a license " 'in case something happens to me,' to keep the business going and, you know, take care of our kids...
...Queen Mary is berthed in the harbor at Long Beach, a tourist attraction. She has a restaurant astern called Sir Winston's. The menu is in French. Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation. You summon a waiter, whose name is Juan. "French taco," Juan explains, "with strawberries...
...room. Or another parental story of the pandemonium occasioned when someone put Christmas light flashers in all the Yard lanterns. It seems that the "Yard cops" (now University Police) had, in the days before radios, been in the habit of switching these lights on and off to summon assistance When the lights came on that evening in the late 1920s, portly gentlemen in blue could be seen puffing from one corner of the Yard to another, anxiously seeking whichever colleague it was who required their...