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...notes, "it matters who does the breathing." The Justices unavoidably bring their own personal values and political philosophies to the bench. In modern times, they have not hesitated to pass judgment on such basic moral issues as abortion and the death penalty. Indeed, over the past three decades, the Brethren, as the nine Justices are still called even though a woman has joined their ranks, have given such vibrant life to the constitutional guarantees of equality and individual liberty that American society stands transformed...
...Coliseum was a Haitian with a lovely, euphonious name, Dieudonne Lamothe. He ran his last lap stolidly, engulfed by applause, and when he crossed the finish line he was the 78th runner to do so. The orange Halloween-hat traffic cones used to guide Lamothe and his swifter brethren onto the track from the tunnel were picked up; the tunnel was blocked off so that such scheduled rituals as the awarding of the final medals, the reintroduction of the athletes, the arrival of a spaceship, the performance of 200 break dancers, Lionel Richie, the fireworks and so forth, could begin...
Taking a hint from their Broadway brethren, London impresarios have stocked their theaters with musicals. There currently are 19 on display, ranging from ripe chestnuts like The Boy Friend and West Side Story to such instant-nostalgia items as Peg (a new show based on the 1912 J. Hartley Manners comedy) and Singin' in the Rain (with aging sprite Tommy Steele in the Gene Kelly role). The big noise, though, comes from two dueling musicals. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice, once the Midas men of British songwriting with the shows Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph...
...four years, including three sessions of summer school. The experience was not rich in what is usually thought of as college life, but she got the degree, and she did it on her own. In a second profound act of independence, she converted at 22 from the United Brethren Church to Roman Catholicism. "I saw something in it I wanted to have," she says. "There is something very soothing about the whole thing. A love of God is easier for me to accept than the fear." She remains a believer, who says, quirkily, "I never laugh when I pray. That...
...advisers and technicians were active all over Africa. But then came the Yom Kippur War (one thing, at least, that Mr. Kurzman does not have the audacity to blame on Israel), and the Arab oil embargo in 1973. Suddenly deciding to cast its lot with its (newly rich) "Arab brethren." Black Africa broke off relations with Israel and began voting as a block with the Arabs and against Israel at the U.N. At the same time, the West Europeans, who have always put money ahead of morality, became markedly cooler in their relations with Israel, and attempted to steer...