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...play opens and closes almost musically, with overlapping scenes and monologues that voice interlocking themes. Each element of the complex structure echoes its content. In the first act the narrators are the women, and the action is the entwining of their friendship. In the second act the main narrators are the men, and the action is aggressive: once the architect has proposed his project, his envious friend undertakes to derail it. In the public as well as the private combat, the question is the same. Do people really want freedom, or do they simply want to want it? Do they...
Still, there is more than a little irony in the cries of foul coming from CBS's corner. TV's fact-based dramas frequently heighten conflict in their pursuit of entertainment. Complex issues are simplified; black hats and white hats are clearly marked. Indeed, Murrow's dramatic liberties are less egregious than those of many other recent TV docudramas, among them CBS's own The Atlanta Child Murders. The problem with Murrow is that its chief black hat is attached to a real-life figure, Frank Stanton, who is still widely admired. As always, the toughest audience for television...
These and other complex questions have been raised by the widespread adoption of no-fault divorce laws. When the first such legislation was implemented in California in 1970, it was hailed by many for permitting a marriage to be dissolved simply through one partner's decision to do so. It thus promised an end to the unsavory courtroom squabbles in which husbands and wives tried to prove each other guilty of infidelity or mental cruelty. Today some version of no-fault is the law in every state, although most do not permit divorce quite so easily as California...
...Rudsky appeal, decreeing a timetable for eliminating nuclear weapons the way the Gramm-Rudman Act has decreed a timetable for eliminating the U.S. budget deficit. As with Gramm-Rudman, the cuts proposed by Gorbachev seem to have an easy and automatic simplicity, but the plan ignores the hard and complex choices that will have to be made down the road to preserve the delicate nuclear balance. Indeed, the initial reductions in strategic weapons would tilt the balance dangerously in the Soviets' favor. In addition, the whole scheme appears to hang on a condition that Gorbachev knows Reagan resists: U.S. abandonment...
Such cases show how complex and changing legal doctrines can increase the risks faced by insurance companies and make those risks more unpredictable. But, as consumer advocates point out, they do not explain the full story. The legal doctrines in question have been evolving for many years. The rise in the number of personal-injury lawsuits and the size of jury awards has also been gradual. But apart from medical malpractice insurance, which has been a headache for both doctors and insurers for at least a decade, it is only in the past two years that liability premiums have exploded...