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Hunneman describes her upbringing as traditional and says that in her first marriage, to James L. Oakes '45, a circuit court judge, she took a conventional role...
...tough with Jones and his associates. During jury selection, he berated a defense lawyer, calling his questioning "incomprehensible." The judge, who lost a daughter in a freak accident in 1992, has not gone out of his way to accommodate the families of the victims--acceding to requests for closed-circuit television coverage only after President Clinton signed a law specifically tailored to give them that right...
...situation is urgent, says Procter Hug Jr., chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California and eight other Western states. Hug says that with a third of its 28 seats vacant, the court has had to cancel hearings for about 600 cases this year. Criminal cases take precedence by law, so at both the trial and appellate levels, it is civil cases that have been crowded out. Civil rights cases, shareholder lawsuits, product-liability actions, medical-malpractice claims and so forth are being pushed to the back of the line, however urgent the complaints. Chief Judge...
...wakeboarding has its own magazine, a pro circuit and enough converts to proclaim itself among the fastest-growing sports in the country. It even has its own Tiger Woods: Parks Bonifay, 15, of Lake Alfred, Fla. As his mother dried him off after he won the wakeboarding gold medal at the 1996 X Games sponsored by ESPN, Bonifay declared his victory "the best moment of my life." The kid, like his sport, has still bigger things ahead. He defends his title in June...
Like it or not, by 1965 Manhattan was the center of Western contemporary art in terms of collecting power, museum clout, promotional and dealing skills and, not least, the amount of talent stacked up in it. The old, genteel American suspicion of the new had vanished. The circuit with the worship of newness in the larger culture had closed. The first beneficiary of this situation was Pop Art, the first wholly accessible style of international Modernism--an art about consumption that sat up and begged to be consumed. Its epitome was Roy Lichtenstein, who emerged in the '60s with...