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Last week, in two major civil rights decisions, the Supreme Court demonstrated its rightward drift. In an anxiously watched North Carolina case, the high bench unanimously reaffirmed a 13-year-old precedent prohibiting racial discrimination in making and enforcing private contracts. But by a vote of 5 to 4 -- with all Reagan appointees in the majority -- the Justices refused to extend the ruling to cover racial harassment in the workplace. Just three days earlier, in a case involving Birmingham fire fighters, the same five significantly lowered the barriers protecting court-approved affirmative- action programs from challenges by white workers...
...good years; accordingly, vintners argue that labeling a bottle as the product of a prestigious AVA like Napa Valley or Sonoma County makes the wine more appealing to buyers. Vintners whose acreage lies within the suggested borders of the four new Napa appellations (Rutherford, Rutherford Bench, Oakville and Oakville Bench) figure to do even better...
...please as many winemakers as possible, rather than a concern for quality. Opponents of the Napa Valley's proposed AVAs charge that the new boundaries would exclude some of the best vineyards and that there is no historical justification for referring to any part of the valley as Oakville Bench. (In geology, a bench is the floodplain of a lake or river...
...freshpersons are sitting on a bench at a Thayer party during freshperson week. One of them is slightly drunk and quietly places her legs over those of the male freshperson sitting next...
...play, or about to go abroad, anyway. Suddenly the globe is ready to play ball, with the Soviet Union leading off. In their hearts, the Soviets probably still think they invented baseball, or lapta, an innocent steppes-child that supposedly predates both British rounders and Tommy John. But the bench jockeying has quieted considerably since the Reds dropped an April game to the U.S. Naval Academy, 21-1, and their coach was heard to mutter, "Throw to second, not first. Second is the one in the middle...