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...Bailey, Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, and Wyoming lawyer Gerry Spence have all brought their legal battles from the courtroom to the book stores. As the most romanticized bailiffs, criminal defense lawyers have led this charge though they represent only a small fraction of all lawyers. A still tinier minority work as public defenders representing the accused who can't afford an F. Lee Bailey's legal fees or pique the legal interest of a scholar like Dershowitz...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: A Guilty Verdict | 11/5/1983 | See Source »

Until this fall community activity focused on such "macro issues." according to Francis M. Duchay '55 a city Councillor and resident of nearby West Cambridge. "We did not concentrate on the tinier, quality of life issues" like pinball and liquor licensing. While certain groups have fought specific licensing decisions in the past this tall is the first time they've done the policy analysis and the kind of research which has allowed them to make more coherent conclusions." Duchay explains...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: A Changing Neighborhood | 2/15/1983 | See Source »

...learning the value of whole menus that can be cooked in advance. Ready When You Are (Crown; $15.95), by Elizabeth Schneider Colchie, consists entirely of what its author felicitously calls fetes accomplies. Her book presents dishes that need "no last-minute fussing. Turning on the oven and setting a tinier, heating a soup, tossing a salad are tolerable tasks." Laboring over a hot stove in party finery is out. New Yorker Colchie arranges her 32 menus by seasons but appends a number of ad hoc niceties like a Sensuous Birthday Dinner, the Last Outdoor Supper and a Valentine Weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Menus for All Seasonings | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...systems. Even more dazzling devices may be in the offing. At present semiconductors are flat; their electrons, for all practical purposes, flow in a single plane. But with the new layering technique, Dingle foresees three-dimensional devices in which electrons flow in all directions. That could make possible even tinier circuitry that would make today's minuscule computers look like veritable dinosaurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Breaking A Barrier | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...because of the woman herself, but because you chose to present her as a model of what other women should be. It is not only inane but cruel to condition men to judge women according to the physical standards of a tiny minority of women chosen by an even tinier minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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