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Robert Kearns has a clear view from his car window to the bank, thanks to a federal jury in Detroit. Last week Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, was awarded $11.3 million for patent infringement by Chrysler. The carmaker must pay him about 90 cents for each of the 12.6 million cars it equipped with the wipers from 1977 to '88. Kearns, who won a similar judgment from Ford in 1990 for $10.2 million, has lawsuits pending against General Motors and 17 other carmakers...
...engage in deficit spending; implementation would have been shrewdly delayed until 1997, when Bush and many current legislators would not have to deal with the resulting budgetary and legal chaos. Small wonder that Democratic Congressman Mike Synar ridiculed the proposal as "the constitutional equivalent of hanging garlic in the window to ward off vampires...
...April 27, 1951, I stood in the window of a high school building in Milwaukee, watching (I was assured) the next President of the United States drive by through cheering crowds. The night before, in Chicago, he had addressed 55,000 people who turned out in drafty Soldier Field despite chilly weather. Before reaching Milwaukee, he had passed people, clustered all along his route, who broke into applause at the sight...
...collective responsibility. The gulf war was no more collective than the Korean War, also fought under the U.N. flag. It was not the U.N. that reversed Saddam's conquest of Kuwait. It was the U.S. Army, based in Saudi Arabia, helped by Britain and France. Everything else was window dressing...
...assailant was not a family member.) Where Are You? picks up where Suzanne Vega's 1987 pop hit about child abuse left off. The gently rocking tune triumphantly attests to the possibility of letting go of hurt and self-blame: "You don't have to look out that window/ Anymore/ You can come back to yourself...