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...court's flip-flop prompted dismay not only among local officials but also among some court observers who think that such an abrupt and emphatic reversal on so important an issue makes a mockery of the judicial function. "This shows the influence of personalities over the rule of law," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It tends to undermine public confidence in the stability of our justice system." Dissenter Justice Lewis Powell was similarly troubled. "Respect for the authority of this court," he wrote, is "not served by the precipitous overruling of multiple precedents...
Reactions to the ruling worldwide varied from dismay to disgust. Said Iceland's former World Chess Federation President Fridrik Olafsson: "Endurance is a factor in all chess matches, and it is absurd to help the champion by giving him a respite." Quipped ex-Champ Spassky: "Campomanes should be called Karpomanes." Meanwhile, Karpov remains champion, and in September the confrontation will begin anew, with no score. In August the chess federation will meet in Graz, Austria, and is expected to go back to the old 24-game rule, ensuring that there will be no repeat of the Moscow marathon...
...refugee camps in Sudan. Perhaps as many as 10,000 are still in Ethiopia. Anguished newcomers to the Israeli absorption centers, struggling to regain their health and adapt to the many confusing aspects of their new life, wait for word of those left behind. Last week they publicized their dismay at the disclosure of Operation Moses by praying for their relatives at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and staging a sit-in on the lawn of the Jewish Agency, the quasigovernmental body that oversees immigration. Said Baruch Tanga, a Falasha activist: "All the years it was hard to leave...
...then nine days later turns himself in. The town goes wild for him. Dubbed the subway vigilante, he is the talk, the toast, of every radio call-in show from Miami to San Diego. The outpouring of popular support becomes a story in itself. Mayors, Governors and editorialists express dismay...
Beverly Hills Cop is a comedy of mutual dismay, in which Axel's culture shock over the way his West Coast colleagues gumshoe through Lotusland is matched by their outraged puzzlement over how to handle a streetwise hipster for whom anarchy is both a way of life and an investigative technique. Were Eddie Murphy absent from this movie one might decry its ambling and the failure of writer and director to develop out of a fertile premise either a well-twisted mystery or some truly wild comic turns. But Murphy is very much present, and it could be argued...