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Dates: during 1970-1979
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He is so well known back home in Sweden that headline writers identify him by his initials alone: P.G. He has a small circle of close friends: professors, psychiatrists and other intellectuals; he relishes their barbs at business because they challenge him to "see the other side." He is married...
Faced with all this, Hannon stunned the city, and the eleven-member school board, by handing in his resignation. The board had just renewed his four-year contract in September, but he was "tired," he said. He proposed a dramatic $70 million budget cut requiring the elimination of 1,700...
To Watergate Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward, that made the nation's highest tribunal a "sitting target." Together with Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, Woodward set out to do for Chief Justice Warren Burger's Supreme Court what he and Carl Bernstein had done for Richard Nixon's...
Of the twelve Justices portrayed in the book, Burger receives the harshest verdict. He is limned as a vain and petty man who consistently tries to bend or ignore the court's rules in order to get his way. His frequent vote switching exasperates his colleagues: after one flipflop...
Excommunications do occur in many Mormon congregations, usually involving sexual misconduct or apostasy-and no publicity. The Mormons gave up polygamy in 1890, but though the church, for example, favors equal pay for equal work, it strongly opposes the ERA, fearing a threat to morality and family life. The church...