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Robin hovers over Harriet and her older sister like a saint and weighs on them like an anvil: a stained-glass window in their church, dedicated to him, depicts Jesus talking to "a red-haired boy in a baseball cap who bore an unmistakable resemblance to Robin." One summer, Harriet sets out to "solve" his murder. She concludes--through an arbitrary and disastrous hunch--that he was hanged by his playmate Danny Ratliff, now 20, a drug dealer from a trailer-trash family. The penalty: she will kill Danny by getting a poisonous snake to bite...
...episode’s plot bore an uncanny resemblance to the West-Summers incident last spring that resulted in West’s departure for Princeton...
...Take 15 disgruntled lawyers, scholars and journalists, give them a publishing contract, and stir. The results will look something like "The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right," edited by Herman Schwartz (Hill & Wang; November). Kirkus calls the book a "full-bore, peppery assault on the current Supreme Court...That the court put George W. Bush into the White House is, in these contributors' estimation, but one of its manifold sins, though it's a big one...Contributor address the Court's perceived failings, born of the very judicial activism that so many conservatives denounce...Expect worse, the authors warn...
Naive fellow that I was, I assumed that this course bore at least a vague resemblance to the regular introductory IR class, Historical Study A-12: “Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World,” and I warned them at the beginning of the summer that class would probably be conceptually difficult and very labor-intensive...
...case, the Crimson defense bore down and stopped Brown on the next two plays to end the game and leave Brown Stadium with...