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Last year, the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Hispanic lobbying organization, sued the state of Texas, charging that countywide elections for district judges diluted minority votes and thus reduced minority representation in the judiciary. Last month, the Fifth Circuit Court dismissed the suit, reasoning that that judges are not "public servants," and therefore their elections need not adhere to Section Two of the 1982 Voting Rights...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Judging Judicial Elections | 10/18/1990 | See Source »

...Twin Peaks. "We had to scrap an awful lot, and we failed an awful lot. But we were kids then. Now we're old." Fortunately, the film found an audience. With its loping internal logic and its unapologetic otherness, Eraserhead soon became a hit on the midnight movie circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...deal with such unsensational topics as the plight of the poor and the future of the family farm. Yet TV's newest talk show could easily rival Oprah's or Geraldo's on the controversy front, largely because of its host. He's a newcomer to the TV gab circuit, if not to controversial gab on TV: Jesse Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Keeping All Kinds of Hope Alive | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...Baxter '90 knew he was in for some surprises when he signed on to pitch with the Jamestown Expos in the New York-Penn League, the Class A circuit that has spawned stars like Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs and Dwight Gooden. But this was ridiculous...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The New Ins And Outs of Harvard Sports | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

...Baxter '90 knew he was in for some surprises when he signed on to pitch with the Jamestown Expos in the New York-Penn League, the Class A circuit that has spawned stars like Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs and Dwight Gooden. But this was ridiculous...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The New Ins And Outs of Harvard Sports | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

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