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...feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made it a practice on night duty to remove and hang up his uniform to keep it unwrinkled for morning show. Once, about 4:30 a.m., the door flew open and Churchill entered. The mortified Kniffin stood at attention in his underwear, wondering whether his career had come to an abrupt end. Churchill seemed not to notice...
...moment, Tse is wearing another unfashionable uniform: that of a convict in the Hong Kong penal system. A judge last week found him guiltyof "conspiracy to commit perversion of public justice," a fancy way of saying Tse tried to weasel out of an embarrassment and, in doing so, committed a crime...
...will of the people by voiding an individual law in a specific case undermines the democratic nature of the American legal system. If the people perceive the law as arbitrarily determined by a 12-member panel lacking any accountability to the citizenry at large, popular confidence in a uniform legal code will disappear...
...wisdom of a law, there can be terrible consequences—exemplified by the refusal of some Southern juries to convict defendants for lynching blacks in the late nineteenth century. Jury nullification undermines the fairness of the legal system by making the enforcement of what should be a uniform standard of conduct dependent only on the opinion of a 12-member jury—without any accountability to the citizenry at large. South Dakota’s proposed Amendment A circumvents the democratic judicial process, and should be voted down...
...pound. There's gray salt, red salt, French salt, Spanish salt, Italian salt, Portuguese salt, salt with algae, salt mixed with herbs, even smoked salt. Such a wide variety was the norm up until the 20th century, when Morton's used an evaporator to make salt white, fine and uniform, says Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History. "It's an irony of history," he says. "What saltmakers wanted to do was to have this consistent, pure, white salt, and once they succeeded, we got completely bored with it." Out of hundreds of salts, here are some regional delicacies...