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...decides whether to review a decision by the Virginia Supreme Court that allowed judges to bar the press from trials. Whatever the outcome in that case or in others that are sure to come up to the high court, the Justices have created the uncertainty themselves. Something is clearly amiss when, as Michigan Law School Professor Yale Kamisar puts it, "Justices have to explain their decisions at the next annual A.B.A. meeting...
...Harrisburg, hasty judgments, formed in response either to panic or to glib reassurances that nothing much was amiss, could lock the nation into a misguided energy policy damaging to the health, welfare and productive strength...
...even a casual observer cannot fail to recognize, the referendum question is aimed primarily at the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU). Students who are opposed to the goals or tacties of the CDU should indicate their view at election time, but it would be dangerously amiss in voting for a blanket disapproval of political parties...
...more like "the Loch Ness monster." This artistic debate took place at the unveiling of the 27,000-lb. bronze in front of Dallas' new city hall, designed by Pei. "Until this arrived," Pei said, "I felt something was missing." A few spectators, however, thought something was still amiss. "Is this a junkyard?" asked one. Moore was undaunted. "People shouldn't immediately expect to cotton onto something someone else has been thinking about much, much longer," he says. "I mean, they don't understand Einstein...
Perhaps Magic's worst sin, though, is that of viciousness. While there is nothing wrong with violence in movies, there is a great deal amiss when a film exists for the sole purpose of showing gruesome murders. Even in show biz, it is not necessary to sink quite so low to make a buck...