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While the West sees and appreciates this aspect of the falling-out, there is an other, lesser known and potentially more dangerous side: the rising of ten sion along the long Sino-Soviet border...
After hearing the suits, a three-judge Federal Court declared void the section of the Georgia constitution calling for a legislative election. "Many arguments may be made," said the order, "but we need to go further than to point out that the candidate receiving the lesser number of votes may be elected by the General Assembly [legislature]." The Court suggested no alternative and provided a temporary stay so that the state could appeal the decision...
...only people to suffer. Many graduate students did not get tickets, and several hundred alumni were furious at being denied good seats, or any seats. But after all, football is an undergraduate sport. And except for the season ticket holders, undergraduates are Harvard's most faithful spectators at the lesser games...
Great U.S. constitutional decisions come down from the Supreme Court like Mosaic tablets-but the common law and administrative rules that affect everyone are created by hundreds of lesser courts and agencies in thousands of obscure human conflicts. A current sampler...
Florence sustained the greatest losses and is still partially under receding flood waters. Freedberg said that 350 paintings of "major importance" and about 600 of lesser value had been damaged in the city's Uffizi Gallery. The destruction was not confined to paintings, frescoes, and sculpture, but also included books, manuscripts, and valuable instruments in several museums...