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...eight minutes and one second in all, the first three minutes especially, they flurried in a slaughter house. Immediately Hagler's forehead was opened and Hearns' right hand was crushed, injuries not exactly unrelated. Only to Hagler did the first round seem brief. "I hated to hear that bell ring." He could make out the shouts from Hearns' corner to box, box, box. "I wanted him to continue fighting...
...picks. The Siegfried Idyll is the erotic pulse that the ballet moves to. In the long first section, five couples proclaim their love with both passion and a delicate concern for each other that is ineffably moving. The music changes to the Adagio for Clarinet and Strings, a brief, little-known chamber composition, also by Wagner. The couples recline at the rear of the stage, the women cradled between the men's knees. A sixth couple, David Parsons and Cathy McCann, costumed in dazzling white, enter and dance a charming, fluid duet. In the end the whole cast is joined...
...amendment without formally invoking it. For practical purposes, the constitutional provision was in effect when Bush was made acting President. But the text of the letter explained the President's reluctance to implement the amendment: "I am mindful," the letter says, "of the uncertainties of its application to such brief and temporary periods of incapacity. I do not believe that the drafters of this amendment intended its application to situations such as the instant...
...white-dominated South Africa a stern Dutch Calvinist concept of law-and-order still holds sway. But suddenly many of the country's segregated black townships are becoming ungovernable. After a brief period of relative calm in June, violence is again on the rise in the black residential areas, with outbursts being reported every day. Last week 13 blacks were killed in the Johannesburg area alone, both by police and by other blacks. In one 24-hour period, 23 violent incidents were reported. Throughout the racially divided country there were fire bombings and grenade attacks in black townships almost every...
Brennan plays these constitutional power games with an institutional advantage. At the court's regular Friday conference, as senior Justice, he addresses his colleagues concerning cases immediately after Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger's presentations are said to be brief and sketchy, Brennan's long, detailed and thoughtful. "The conference may disagree," says one former clerk, "but it is in terms Brennan established." Further, when he is in the majority and the chief is not, his senior status gives him the right to name the author of the court's opinion. Rather than taking all important decisions for himself, Brennan...