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...political fray. In fact, with 40 states requiring that at least some judges be elected or confirmed at the polls, the courts are often a major target of voter grievances. This year the nation's most impassioned political campaign may be one aimed at a judge. Opponents of Rose Bird, California's first woman chief justice, are working hard to knock her off that judicial perch. It looks very much as if they will succeed in making her the first member of that court to be rejected under the 50-year-old confirmation...
Once head of the state's agriculture and services agency and a former public defender, Bird, 49, has been a focus of conservative antagonism since 1977, when she was appointed by liberal Governor Jerry Brown despite a conspicuous lack of judicial experience. A year later she narrowly avoided defeat in a confirmation vote that California justices periodically face. In this year's election, her second, her situation is far worse. The most recent voter survey shows the chief getting swamped by nearly...
...state where four-fifths of the population favors capital punishment, the main charge against Bird is that during her nine-year tenure the court has reversed all but three of the 55 death-penalty sentences that have come before it. Bird voted to overturn all of them. "She has been twisting the law so that it more closely reflects her own political beliefs," says Kern County District Attorney Edward Jagels, who, like many prosecutors, is an active Bird critic. (Bird refuses to divulge her personal position on capital punishment.) The campaign against the chief is a major factor...
...Boston's biggest attraction, Larry Bird, is back to start another quest for the NBA Championship, and yes, the same cast of characters around him are also back...one year wiser, one year more experienced, and one year older...
...giant bird, one a towering fountain of water, one a large video screen showing the face of George Washington and a message that "the measurement of the American dream is The Dollar." The other two are -- well, it is hard to say what exactly. Nick Patsaouras, head of the design committee, says that all will be "radically changed" before a final winner is chosen. . Some Los Angeles citizens devoutly hope so. Says Susan Kirvin-Cox, spokeswoman for the city's Visitors and Convention Bureau: "We need to get away from that wacky, weird image that everybody...