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...city of New York to give shelter-meaning a bed-to anyone requesting it. Continuing to find conditions "pretty bad," he went back to court a year later, charging New York with dragging its feet and doing no more than "warehousing" the homeless. The city promised in a consent decree to carry out the earlier order. And last month, the court ruled in effect that New York was now doing as well as could be expected...
...distressing subject in the symmetrical style of belles-lettres. Divorce, he remarks dryly, "transforms habit into drama," turning miseries into melodramatic history. Roman marriage, he observes, was a civil contract based on mutual affection. When that affection perished, the marriage, like any civil contract, could be dissolved by mutual consent. This sensible arrangement, according to Alvarez, was compromised by Christianity. The early church fathers elevated a simple civil contract to an immutable spiritual sacrament: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." When marriage became holy, divorce became damnable...
Richard Diebenkorn, 59, is by fairly general consent the dean of California painters. A former Marine who began his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, Diebenkorn started as a representational artist in the 1940s, became an abstract painter, returned to the theme of figure-in-landscape in the 1950s and then, from 1967 onward, gradually began to make himself a world reputation with a sequence of essentially abstract canvases that he christened the "Ocean Park" series, after the section of Santa Monica where he now lives. Yet there was nothing veering or arbitrary about the changes in his approach...
Bell officials last week were trying to ease public concerns about price hikes. Executives passed out memos urging employees to tell outsiders that there "is nothing in the consent decree that changes local rates." But despite those soothing words, some telephone charges will be going up. Warns Ulric Weil of Morgan Stanley & Co.: "Don't be surprised if, in some parts of the country in the future, it will cost you $100 to have the telephone repairman come to your home." Most likely to suffer are people in rural areas, where telephone equipment is often aging and the number...
...Justice Department filed the suit against A T & T in 1974 during the Ford Administration. It charged Ma Bell with violating a 1956 consent decree that had settled an earlier Justice Department antitrust action against the company. Under the terms of the 1956 settlement, AT&T was permitted to retain ownership of Western Electric, but it agreed at the same time to restrict its future business activities to local and long-distance telephone services...