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...From a file drawer he fetched evidence from criminal cases his office has dealt with. The point was, it seemed, simple citations can lead to bigger things. One example: a bicycle obscured an auto license plate. The car was stopped, and it yielded eleven bags of a "brown mushroom substance I can't pronounce (psilocybin), although I know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours...
Sanctuary has become a popular cause among liberal religious activists. Some 300 local congregations, including about 100 since the Tucson indictments were filed last year, have declared themselves to be sanctuaries for Central Americans, as have a Methodist seminary, eleven universities, 19 cities and, under an order by Democratic Governor Toney Anaya, the entire state of New Mexico. Also endorsing the movement: the American Baptist, Presbyterian and United Methodist churches, United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the rabbinical arms of Conservative and Reform Judaism...
...tenth time in eleven years, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal (given in memory of a LIFE photographer killed in 1954 in Indochina), awarded "for photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," went to a photographer on assignment for TIME. Peter Magubane, a black South African, has been covering the violence and tragedy in his country for more than 20 years...
...example: even when she agrees with the majority, she increasingly carves out her own position. She wrote eleven concurrences in the court's last term, second only to William Brennan's 14. Some of those helped establish her influence on the thinking of her fellow Justices--for example, in constitutional questions regarding religion. Thus two years ago, she joined a 5-to-4 majority upholding the constitutionality of a town-sponsored Nativity scene in Rhode Island. With reasoning that Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz calls "extremely elegant," she sought in a concurring opinion to draw a line between government actions...
Nearly all the biggest advertising competitors are gobbling up rivals in what Adweek Editor in Chief Richard Morgan calls "a free-for-all." According to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, there were eight mergers in 1984, 19 in 1985 and eleven already announced in the first four months of 1986, most of them involving large agencies. Firms that once expanded by opening a new office are now more likely to buy an existing agency, picking up its client list as well as its creative talent...