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BENJAMIN WEST: AMERICAN PAINTER AT THE ENGLISH COURT, Baltimore Museum of Art. Period pieces today, these 52 canvases show what made "the American Raphael" (1738-1820) the toast of London and the first American artist to achieve international renown. Through...
...paid more than 13% interest. The company then expanded its line of merchandise to include video players and ^ electronic appliances in the hope of boosting business. Bewildered customers began shopping elsewhere, and Revco fell short of its sales and earnings targets. Revco became the largest LBO to seek bankruptcy-court protection last year, after a creditor demanded accelerated payments on $100 million of junk bonds...
...sure to anger the Senate, endangering the President's future appointments and proposals. When the Senate returns after Labor Day, the President and his Attorney General face another firefight over the nomination of Clarence Thomas, the ultraconservative black chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to the federal appeals court in Washington. That battle might give Thurmond another opportunity to cast himself as a sanctimonious champion of civil rights...
...Legal Education Center in Johannesburg; and the Institute for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. All participate in a thriving exchange of students and professors between the U.S. and South Africa. Says John Dugard, head of the Institute for Applied Legal Studies: "These days, even high-court judges are making study trips to the U.S. Our legal education system is looking more and more to the U.S. experience...
...will embrace the paper, the debate will give new legitimacy to civil rights workers, who are too often seen as dangerous leftists in South Africa. State Judge Jack Etheridge of Atlanta, who recently spent seven months in Johannesburg, insists that the best counsel is to "test the government"in court. As the legal activists know better than most, there is no quick fix for South Africa. But they have made a start...