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Bragg was also mightily affected by "the whole punk thing" that started in 1977, and especially by people like Elvis Costello and The Clash. Their inspiration started him off writing and performing...
Reagan's impending clash with the Senate over Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court is expected to be a dramatic showdown. "Most people in the Senate haven't made up their minds," contends Chief of Staff Howard Baker, "and I think that's good." He predicts Bork will be "an absolutely stunningly good witness." If Reagan wins, his legacy may well include a long- lasting conservative course for the court...
...husband. Oddly, no reporter asked Press Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater what birthday Mrs. Reagan was celebrating. She was, in fact, an elegant and lively 64, er, give or take a year. But birthdays and almost everything else had been pushed aside in the media, all waiting for the big clash on Capitol Hill...
...other Americans. As a matter of law, however, they are wrong. The 1982 verdict against the Post was overturned, first by the trial judge and again on appeal. Libel law is often what scholars call counterintuitive: its tenets sometimes appear to contradict common sense and even common courtesy. The clash between legal principle and public perception may explain why libel verdicts so persistently get reversed and why legal scholars and a growing number of libel plaintiffs are concluding that going to court usually amounts to a frustrating waste of time...
There goes Joanie. It was billed as the clash of the late-night titans, but just seven months after Joan Rivers went head to head with her old benefactor Johnny Carson, the star of The Late Show is being dimmed. The acerbic comedian last week became the latest in a long list of contenders who have tried and failed to dethrone the reigning monarch of the midnight airwaves. In response to increasingly disappointing ratings, Fox Broadcasting Co. decided that beginning this week Rivers was through as the regular host, although she may alternate with a roster of as-yet-unnamed...