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What happened? In December, the DPW was ready to announce a route for the Belt. It delayed a decision until March at the request of City officials. The postponement was intended to give the City time to recommend an alternative to the Brookline-Elm route--the path long favored by...
In a lucid, 45-page decision replete with psychiatric, legal and historical scholarship, Kaufman suggested that M'Naghten has really been out of date since its formulation in 1843, when Daniel M'Naghten tried to assassinate British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel and killed his secretary instead. M...
The abiding quandary is financial. New York, the world's wealthiest city, has to borrow to meet its $4 billion annual budget, last week was contemplating a whole new set of taxes (see U.S. BUSINESS). Yet, as Weaver points out, "if you start talking about putting on extra taxes...
James Joyce demonstrated among other things that even in the works of a genius the stream of consciousness not infrequently turns out to be a Mississippi of malarkey, but the lesson seems to have been lost upon Giuseppe Berto, a well-known Italian novelist (Il Cielo è Rosso) whose obvious...
"I have myself brainwashed into believing we can win,'" said U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro-and his Bruins obviously shared the delusion. Outweighed by 13 lbs. per man, they intercepted three passes, recovered two fumbles, stopped Michigan State three times on fourth down with a yard or less to go...