Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like impassioned Astrophel chasing fair Stella, the Crimson stickmen pursued elusive victory, only to be turned away, like the unrequited lover, frustrated by a 2-1 loss to Brown...
...said that hard cases make bad law. But in the hard case of New York Times Reporter Myron Farber, the U.S. Supreme Court last week decided simply to make no law at all. The court refused, without comment, to review a clash between the rights of fair trial and free press that sent Farber to jail for 40 days and cost the Times $285,000 in fines and over $200,000 in legal fees...
...protect a reporter's sources and notes. New Jersey and 25 other states have them. In Farber's case, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided that the shield law "must yield," because it came into conflict with a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial...
...Revson's words, and Revson could scarcely fathom Bergerac's accent; neither understood much of what the other said. Bergerac remembers asking Revson at another meeting: "Why do you want somebody like me? I have been associated for a long time with basically technical products, so I know a fair amount about factories, marketing and technical engineering, but ..." Revson's reply: "I know all that, but you have one thing this company needs. You know how to make money...
Bailey agrees that Brustein is a man with a vision. But that vision often blinds Brustein to--or offers him an excuse to ignore--the little realities of the day-to-day theater world. Those realities include more democratic scheduling, realistic rehearsal and stage time and, beyond that, simple fair play with the bare minimum of backroom politics...