Word: warrens
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...Home Free!, by Lanford Wilson. A poignant fairy-tale quality pervades this story of a brother and his incestuously pregnant sister and helps the play achieve an astonishingly tender tension between sickness and sweetness. The boy (Michael Warren Powell) and girl (Joanna Miles) live in a fantasy playroom of imaginary companions and real toys, such as a miniature Ferris wheel. The atmosphere has a suffocating intimacy, an airless immunity to reality that recalls Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, with its similarly incestuous relationship. Reality finally intrudes with cruel pathos as the girl's birth pangs become her death...
Speaking for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Warren utterly rejected Singer's "bald proposition." The Constitution, he said, provides for no more and no less than "impartial trial by jury." To its framers, in fact, jury trial was such a vital shield against oppression that some of them regarded it as the only permissible way of determining guilt. Not until 1930 did the Supreme Court rule that defendants can waive jury trial in federal criminal cases but then only with permission of both judge and prosecutor...
Singer argued that a defendant can act in his best interests, but Warren ruled that "the ability to waive a constitutional right does not ordinarily carry with it the right to insist upon the opposite of that right." When the prosecutor insisted on jury trial, Singer wound up with "the very thing that the Constitution guarantees...
...students wanting to enter a Peace Corps training project this summer who have not yet taken the placement test will have one more opportunity to do so. The test will be administered at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Brighton High School, 25 Warren St. in Brighton...
Allen W. Dulles, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the Warren Commission, will become the Business School's first president fellow, inaugurating an annual, three-day student-organized program...