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After watching the Eagle careen around its mile-long track, I was definitely not psyched. So I decided on a plan for working my way up to the Mt. Everest of roller coasters--I would ride the park's lesser ones first. The name of the tiniest one should have been enough to turn me away. "Willard's Whizzer" whirled like the spin-dry cycle of a washing machine, and anything that goes in circles makes me sick. I rode it anyway...
Fully 20 bills now pending in Congress are designed to strip certain powers from the Supreme Court and lesser U.S. tribunals. The House is dealing with 16 of the measures, and four have been introduced in the Senate. Some of the measures, Senate Bill 158 among them, would prevent federal district and appellate courts from hearing cases involving any new state antiabortion statutes. Others, like Senate Bill 481 and House Bill 865, would limit the jurisdiction of the whole federal judiciary, the Supreme Court included, in school prayer cases...
...else performs for Jerry's Kids? Lesser Wayne Newtons, really. There's Julius LaRosa, who sang on Arthur Godfrey's radio show. And Tony Orlando, sans Dawn. Tony Orlando, Otis Elevator Co's favorite performer. Tony Orlando, who lives in that sapping--if profitable--wasteland reserved for performers with one smash record so monstrously huge that no one will ever forget their names, but, by the same token, so monstrously huge that they will never come close to matching it. It's a career built on the past, and thus that much safer for the audience; no surprises here. Orlando...
...William Rand, the turmoil of the Late 60s have caused problems of the opposite nature--though to a far lesser extent. Where Barber must deal with alumni who still resent Harvard's conservatism during that era, Rand must face classmates who balk at Harvard's alleged liberalism. "Some people were upset when the University got rid of its military programs--though they were bucking under to pressure. Some others thought Harvard had a communist element stirring then...
...special assistant to President Bok. The so-called "Klitgaard report" stated that Blacks and other minorities who do well on aptitude tests do not perform as well academically as their scores would seem to predict. It also envisions the possibility that Blacks might be more comfortable at a "lesser" university where their intellectual abilities would more closely match those of other students...