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...Breyer also carved out a course area for himself in economic regulation.) As a judge he has shown little interest in such issues as civil rights, privacy or the First Amendment, which have provided most of the fireworks on the high court for the past four decades. The First Circuit of Appeals in Boston, where he sits, is also one that receives few high-profile cases. For instance, since none of the states in his circuit has the death penalty, Breyer has never ruled on the issue. On almost every question of consequence on which he has pronounced himself...
Breyer was a full-time faculty member at the Law School until 1980, when he became a judge on the circuit court. Sources said he was a finalist for Harvard's presidency...
Many of the drivers on the Grand Prix circuit blamed a spate of crashes this season on an effort by the International Federation of Automobiles (FIA), Formula One's Paris-based governing body, to sharpen competition by banning the use of high-tech devices thought to give the richer racing teams an unfair advantage. In doing so, the drivers charged, the federation had made the sport far more dangerous. Senna himself had expressed misgivings even before the start of the season. "It's a great error to remove the electronics from the cars," he said. "The cars are very fast...
...would consider requiring the installation of air bags to prevent the kind of head injuries that apparently killed Ratzenberger and Senna. After the race, Italian officials launched an investigation to see whether the sponsors of the Imola race should be held criminally responsible for failing to maintain the circuit properly...
...Rivers depicts herself thrashing through her husband's well-stocked medicine cabinet after learning that he has killed himself in a Philadelphia hotel room. Later, still bereaved but completely broke, she appears on Hollywood Squares and, less than two months after Edgar is buried, returns to the stand-up circuit. (Sample joke: "My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at + Neiman Marcus . . . That way I'd visit him every day.") All this reactive, forced levity doesn't sit well with Melissa, who throws tantrums and winds up in the arms of an abusive...