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...second chance in the Winthrop House JCR this weekend. Charlie Brown, despite his advancing years, and despite the fact that newspapers are pushing both him and Jules Feiffer aside in favor of Doonesbury, is still young America's quintessential nebbish, every little boy's and girl's Woody Allen-writ small. Charles M. Schultz's cutesie-pie pop-psychological ponderings have been adapted for the stage by Clark Gesner...
...knife when he refuses to eat. The joke is a funny one, no doubt-and by elevating a stand-up routine into a comic art form, Philip Roth gave popular American culture the definitive stereotype of the Jewish mother. As for the Jewish grandmother, she is merely Sophie Portnoy writ large...
...bothering much with prosecutions or convictions. Fed up in 1679, Parliament drew on earlier common law practices and passed its celebrated Habeas Corpus Act, which provided that anyone keeping someone in custody could be required to "produce the body" and show that he was legally holding it. The Great Writ has since spread to include attacks on all manner of wrongful custody-from improper confinement in mental institutions to a divorced father's spiriting away of his children. Today all 50 U.S. states permit habeas corpus petitions (or their like), and so does federal law. But while...
...result has been a constant shifting in the rights that the writ has been used to protect, particularly when federal courts review state convictions. Beginning in 1953 the Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that have allowed lower federal courts to check over every constitutional claim, even if it had been fully litigated in state proceedings. "The writ wasn't supposed to be an appeal, but it has basically become another level of appellate review," says Columbia's Uviller. Prisoners like Lloyd Powell and David Rice began raining petitions on federal courts. The total last year...
...Sometimes we see as many as ten, 20 or 30 petitions from one man over a period of years," says San Francisco Federal Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli. Some federal courts have "writ clerks" who do nothing but go over prisoner petitions. Habeas corpus is "an important psychological right," argues Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, even though "the number of prisoners who succeed is infinitesimal." Nelson Kempsky of California's department of corrections agrees: "Increasing access to the courts has not made it more difficult to run prisons. In fact, it has served as a safety valve...