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James Kirkland Batson is black, and the Kentucky jurors who convicted him in 1984 of burglary and receipt of stolen goods were all white. The prosecutor had excluded four blacks from the jury with peremptory challenges, which have long been exercised without any explanation required. But last week in an important 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court reined in the practice. Justice Lewis Powell, writing for the majority, observed that intentional racial bias denies "the protection that a trial by jury is intended to secure"--a jury of one's peers. So the court changed the rules. Previously...
...Southern California chars at the edges, and Archer's own pleasurable disillusions, and-for the reader who is unyoung, unrich and undelighted-you have a fantasy very nearly worth 19 reruns. Archer's middle-aged tiredness is the necessary anchor in reality; the reader is not Billy Batson any more, and he will not believe Captain Marvel...
...author can update the first part of Genesis without confronting the problem of how to treat the Biblical notion of Woman, but Miller, although aware of the problem, remains ambivalent. Susan Batson's acting makes Eve a sympathetic character--she is not only beautiful, with a body like a pre-Columbian statuette and a mane of luxuriant waist-length hair: she is also vitally strong Her husky voice and panther-like blackness rescue her from being a cloying sweet Eve, and she generally overcomes even the most romantically sentimental of Miller's lines. The author, however, doesn't quite know...
...emphasize that HEW never asked for new busing. It asks a new plan, which could include new schools, new district boundaries, or new routes for present buses. As one official observes: "HEW can't legally not proceed against Boston." Among blacks, too, feelings are running high. Says Ruth Batson, a civil rights worker at Boston University: "Black people have got sick of this whole foolishness. We absolutely cannot continue to live...
Quincy: David Josiah Ballard, Benjamin A. Batson, Jr., Joseph E. Clements, Richard D. Copaken, Leonard Lloyd Eliman, Stephen R. Fenster, Todd A. Gitlin, Michael E. Goldberg, Leon I. Jacobson, David E. Levy, Roy M. MacLeod, II, Joseph P. Newhouse, David H. Sohmalz, Charles A. Stevenson, Brian A. Thompson, Richard E. Wilson...