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...Last year TIME cited the Chief Justice's grim prediction in a cover story about "Those #@!!! Lawyers." The cover this week examines the second object of Burger's concern, His Honor's increasingly powerful colleagues on the bench. To assess the rapid expansion of judicial authority in the U.S. and the delays, anachronisms and inefficiencies that plague the nation's courts, TIME correspondents interviewed dozens of lawyers and judges across the country, including the studiously reclusive Chief Justice himself. Reports Washington Correspondent Doug Brew: "Chatting with Burger in a quiet corner of his office while...
...David Grim Reston...
...walked upon it. The walls of my room swirled around and around, dilating and breathing, their bright colors and strange poster faces lulling my consciousness--the face of Jim Morrison peered in on me from an album cover, still and refracted, inviting me to his morbid dance with a grim smile and doll's eyes...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky long ago portrayed "violence, alcoholism and sex" in Russian life. Wife beating and child and animal abuse, as well as the pathological patterns studied by Soviet Dissident Mikhail Stern, filled Dostoyevsky's books, giving readers a grim and apparently still true portrait of Soviets at work and play...
...since the Korean War price explosion of 1950-51 has double-digit inflation gripped the economy so relentlessly for a full half year. But no sooner had Jimmy Carter named his new economic team of Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker than the grim news was out: living costs had spurted up yet again in June, and at just about the same breathless clip at which they have been rising since January...