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Public celebrations for the Brethren's first sister
...OCTOBER 5, the first Monday in October, Sandra Day O'Connor will formally become the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court. Perhaps, on this historic occasion, you find yourself wondering how the other eight brethren will react to their new sister, and this curiosity could even inspire you to see The First Monday in October, a movie ostensibly based on this very question. Before you do, consider the following evidence...
...accept Prince of the City as merely unravelling the ramifications of a police officer turning on his brethren, it fascinates absolutely, even over a corpulent three hours. Ciello is an informer, a curiously ambiguous role throughout American history, and director Sidney Lumet has accepted and used brilliantly that ambiguity, refusing to portray Ciello as either hero or villain. Americans have never been entirely comfortable with the informer, but informers have periodically (though often only temporarily) emerged as heroes. The name-namers of the McCarthy period offer the most striking example of evaporating national acclaim, while the Watergate tattlers have generally...
While Brett and his multimillionaire brethren will undoubtedly benefit from President Reagan's 25-per-cent tax cut, several of his fellow and less-well-paid baseball unionists suffered financially this summer. And most of them didn't even understand the tricky sticking issue of free-agent compensation. "Don't ask me. You'll have to call Marvin Miller," said Toronto Blue Jay player representative Alvis Woods in response to questions during the strike...
...that way, and becoming more so, is precisely because of their impasse with Israel. The tragedy and chaos that have engulfed the once peaceful, prosperous nation of Lebanon are a direct spillover of the Palestinian problem. Anwar Sadat's position both within Egypt and among his Arab brethren elsewhere will remain precarious unless he can point to some success in the Palestinian autonomy talks initiated by the Camp David agreements and due to resume in three weeks. By and large Sadat has shown forbearance over Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and flexibility over the delicate issue...