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...footman was suspected of having had a lengthy affair with Queen Caroline. Questioned about the matter, a fellow servant in a position to know claimed that he did not remember. The Lord Chancellor ruled he could be convicted of perjury if the court reasonably concluded he should have remembered. Thereupon his memory swiftly improved, and the principle was established...
Sirica-who turned 70 last week and thereupon shifted from chief judge to a senior judge of the federal district court in Washington-rejected claims by lawyers for the indicted conspirators that the grand jury had no power to make such a report and that giving the material to the House committee could prejudice their clients' trials if the evidence became public. The appeals court promptly supported Sirica's decision...
...favored protection against "incapacity, negligence or perfidy in the chief magistrate." But when George Mason proposed adding "maladministration" to treason and bribery, Madison thought the word "so vague as to be equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the Senate." Borrowing a catchall phrase from English usage, Mason thereupon substituted "high crimes and misdemeanors." Without debate, this curious phrase, which has bedeviled political discourse ever since, became part of the Constitution...
...antiart, Duchamp's work became a lunatic cornerstone for Dada, the movement that celebrated disorder, chance, anarchism−anything to reverse the stultified, rational societies that had led to World War I. Thereupon, Duchamp renounced canvas forever. He became a fixture of the New York art scene, painted on glass, composed musical pieces by making a random choice of notes, and dropped pieces of string, then froze them to a board with a glue...
...terrorists demanded a car to drive them to Syria, but then they decided to hold hostage the driver, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Kuwait and the man who had been conducting negotiations. Totally exasperated by the terrorists' conduct, the Kuwait authorities thereupon surrounded the plane with 100 police and a dozen armored cars. The gunmen were finally cowed and meekly surrendered, giving up their four Saudi hostages unharmed and ending their bizarre, fruitless odyssey...