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...obliged to maintain the game's conventions, in which players are invited to solve a mystery of the multiple-murders-in-a-mansion variety, that he allowed himself no time for dialogue or business that rises above the mechanical. Such good performers as Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan and Martin Mull are driven breathless and charmless trying to keep up with the plot's inane demands. To amend a phrase: Who cares who killed Mr. Boddy...
Even on a Supreme Court that leans to the right on criminal matters, Justice William Brennan has shown a gift for assembling a majority behind liberal decisions. He did it again last week in a 5-to-4 ruling that fortified a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel. In the case of a convicted car thief, Perley Moulton Jr., the court ruled that Maine authorities should not have used as evidence statements he made, after his indictment, in conversation with his alleged partner, a wired government informant...
Prosecutors argued that the exchange had been taped not to obtain evidence in the theft case but to investigate Moulton's alleged threat to kill a government witness. The evidence was therefore legally gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other...
Insignia items are even more popular at smaller schools, said Christine O'Brian, assistant merchandise manager of Brennan College Service, which manages many college stores in the Northeast. She said students at large schools do not feel as much allegiance to their alma maters as their small college counterparts...
Rehnquist also said that he would not comment on the recent dispute between Attorney General Edwin Meese and Supreme Court Justice William Brennan over the issue of judicial restraint because he had not read their speeches on the subject...