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...Court that if federal recognition of Christmas--an important Christian holiday--is reconcilable with the Establishment Clause, then the religious symbols attached to the holiday must also be constitutional. Moreover, Lee argued that lower court decisions opposing Nativity scenes were tantamount to "cultural censorship," discriminating on the content of speech...
Pickens was content to wait for Gulfs annual shareholders' meeting in May to push the trust plan, but Lee decided to beat the Texan to the draw. The Gulf chairman devised a strategy to reincorporate the Pittsburgh-based company in Delaware, instead of Pennsylvania. Under Delaware law, Pickens would have to muster a majority of stockholder votes to gain a seat on the Gulf board or to force any structural changes in the company. Pennsylvania rules would allow the Pickens group, with its 12%-plus voting bloc, to grab a spot on the 13-member Gulf board...
...mounting a direct challenge to Saint Laurent's supremacy in both the atelier and the boutique. As he did in the '70s when his couture values were threatened, Saint Laurent will probably respond with fiendish flare. If he does not, the reason may be that he is content to reaffirm those values quietly through his designs. One emerges from this retrospective sensing that this is a defiant stronghold of luxury and glamour. As Saint Laurent writes in an essay for the museum's catalogue: "I believe that the couture must be preserved at all costs...
Somber in tone and menacing in content, that announcement by Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov last week was far from unexpected...
ONLY WHEN HARDWICK focuses upon a work of fiction does she unite form with content. The title essay, "Bartleby in Manhattan", is one of the finest in the collection. She takes Herman Melville's novella. "Bartleby the Scrivener", and dissects it as a verbal tour de force. Bartleby speaks only 37 times in a story of 16,000 words concerning himself, and each time he speaks he does so in a variation of the phrase "I would prefer not to." Hardwick convincingly equates Bartleby's character with the modern New Yorker; his footlessness is the predecessor...