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Sleight of hand: Reagan is the first complete television President. The implications of that mastery are unsettling. Says Political Scientist James David Barber of Duke University: "Television news is very heavy on feelings. There is always a temptation to reduce the question to sentiment. Reagan's criterion of validity is theatrical rather than empirical...
Scalia would make it much harder for blacks to win a discrimination case. Burger was the author of Griggs vs. Duke Power Co., a 1971 decision holding that employment tests that have the effect of barring blacks are unconstitutional. Scalia, by contrast, has argued that blacks must show direct evidence that the employer was motivated by racial bias against them...
...Burger Court will be remembered, if it's remembered at all, as a moderate court, neither retrenching nor avant-garde," says Duke University Law Professor William Van Alstyne. Its prudence derived from the respect it, like previous courts, accorded to the precedents set by predecessors. Thus the Warren rulings became the basis upon which the Burger Court built its reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency...
...made by anyone making a theme-park trek across Tennessee. Start at Opryland. "If you're going to be a theme park in Nashville," says Park Flack Tom Adkinson, "you'd better be about music." But not just country music: Opryland's 120 acres embrace doo-wop and Duke Ellington in as many as a dozen simultaneous stage shows. Then it's 20 miles northeast to Hendersonville and a stop at Twitty City, the monument Country Star Conway Twitty has built to himself, including a guided tour conducted by a giant mechanical Twitty Bird. (Just down the road is Johnny...
Chrysler Chairman LEE IACOCCA at Duke University, Durham, N.C.: "My class, the class of '46, wasn't too worried about competing in the world. There was hardly anybody to compete with. But the class of '86 had better learn how to compete, because you're living in a very different world. Something else you'd better do better than we have: learn how to balance the books. We're leaving you with a $2 trillion national debt. Along with your own problems and your own bills, you're going to get the privilege of handling some of mine...