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...Supreme Court's expanding case load seems as tough to tame as the federal budget. Again this year it was the largest ever; the Justices heard arguments on 184 of the 5,178 cases appealed to them. And the overflowing judicial In boxes meant another flurry of decisions in the final weeks as the Justices just managed to meet their goal of recessing before the July 4 weekend. The 27 rulings handed down last week generally reflected the themes sounded throughout the term. In one decision, for example, a moderately retarded Pennsylvania woman was denied federal review...
...thing about T. Boone Pickens: nobody ever faulted him for thinking small. "We did not come to town on a load of watermelons," declared the chairman of Mesa Petroleum Co. of Amarillo, Texas (1981 sales: $408 million) from his 39th-floor suite atop New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Pickens, 54, had come to New York loaded not with watermelons but with money, $ 1 billion in bank credits to be exact. He intended to use the money to buy up a company nearly 20 times Mesa's size. His target: Cities Service Co. of Tulsa, the nation...
...were elected earlier this academic year. Nominations for membership in Phi Beta Kappa are based on grade point averages and departmental recommendations, with consideration given to about 20 percent of the class. A student faculty committee pores over the relative merits of each candidate's course load, as well as solicited personal recommendations and eventually narrows the field...
...skimming Exocet missile. The aircraft fired their weapons from a distance of about 28 miles. One missed the Conveyor; the other struck home. Though the vessel stayed afloat, the crew abandoned ship. Loss of the Conveyor was particularly painful for the British: the ship was carrying a large load of invasion equipment, possibly including heavy troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and spare parts for the Harriers. What made the attack on the freighter especially disturbing for the British was that the Conveyor reportedly was within sight of the carrier Hermes when struck. Presumably, the Hermes was the real target; the Argentines...
Russell's great inspiration is to solve the paradox at the opera's core, that of a modern work in courtly guise. If the music will not carry the dramatic load, then the action must. The director updates the splendid, rather literary W.H. Auden-Chester Kallmann libretto from 18th century to contemporary England without altering a word of text. Realized by Designer Derek Jarman, the images are vivid and immediate, painted in hard, splashy colors to evoke a drug-and crime-ridden world...