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...jury's verdict--on the surface the conviction of a particular doctor for a particular operation--will have the effect the prosecution desired when it brought the indictment last April, of intimidating those who perform legal abortions. Still, as a thousand supporters demonstrated Monday, there is much to be hoped after all this: That a higher court will reverse the decision on the grounds that no state statute warned Edelin that the operation he undertook was culpable. Or that the state Board of Registration in Medicine will uphold Edelin's actions by refusing to revoke his license. Or that...
...realize that you're giving someone a few reading skills, hopefully some confidence and security, but that you're trying to heal the scars of decades and that as you prepare to return to Harvard you've ignored a thousand other prisoners. To me it always feels like sending someone in Biafra a care package...
...devices that Bridge designs. Solingen steelmakers in Germany produce his oversize all-purpose kitchen knife. Marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, supply him with the special slabs that he specifies for kneading dough. A French factory manufactures his unique upright asparagus cooker. These bestsellers are delivered-and sold-a thousand at a time. That largesse may give patrons great entrees, but it also gives Fred Bridge new impatience with sluggish buyers-and fresh skepticism about the current headlines...
Perhaps a decision is in the making, for the Socialist Workers contingent, about a thousand strong marches off before the main group. But it isn't evident. Though many people run around with yellow rags tied around their arms, and despite large numbers of walkie-talkies circulating about, and maybe because of the outlandish number of groups involved, each with their own hierarchy of leaders, organizers, and speechmakers, there is a remarkable lack of decision-making. Everyone gets spilled onto Clemente Park, mixed up with everyone else while the ideologues scream about identity. The Anti-Racist Coalition "says the march...
...offered to make some sort of settlement for the land anyhow. If the Indians cool down and keep quiet, the Government will pay them a little over a dollar for each acre-exactly what the land was worth a century ago. Since the going price is now several thousand dollars an acre, the Battle Mountain Indians have the rather familiar feeling of being shafted...