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...sort of shot-in-the-arm is needed for the much-maligned Mondale candidacy, these debates should provide it. Though the shrinking ranks of college-age voters who remain Democrats went largely for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) in the spring primaries, the time has come not only to support Fritz Mondale, but to support him with open arms. There is no excuse to hide behind the traditional criticisms of Mondale--he's boring, backward-looking, etc.--because, as Sunday's debate showed, the perception of glamor and excitement is about as deep as the celluloid it's projected...
...there is little collegiality. "It's not like you walk into a room and four of them are laughing together about a baseball game," says a former law clerk for Brennan. "They walk to conference arm in arm, but during the week they don't pal around together." Justice Lewis Powell calls the Brethren "nine one-man law firms." Says Blackmun: "There is very little humor...
...major reversal. The most likely target is a favorite law-and-order bugaboo, the exclusionary rule, which requires judges to throw out evidence in a criminal trial that police obtained in violation of the suspect's constitutional rights. The rule is designed to deter police from strong-arm tactics. But its occasional effect is to exclude evidence vital to the prosecution's case, so that a guilty defendant goes free on a "technicality...
...fans practically booed me out of town. It got so bad, I went to the plate thinking, 'I'll show these people,' hardly even noticing who was pitching. I was a disaster." Lacking Mantle's arm, he was obliged to learn how to release the ball more quickly. Kaline showed him how, and while he was at it, reintroduced him properly to Al's old friend, right field. "I'm never going to be Mickey Mantle," said Gibson. "But I'm learning." Crowding 30 homers and 100 RBIS, he batted over...
Perhaps what gave the Crimson its biggest push yesterday, and its biggest shot in the arm, was someone who wasn't even on the playing field...