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...only conflict between legitimized candidates smolders but rarely flames between Joe Kennedy, a "moderate," and the two "progressive" Democratic runners-up, who fault Kennedy for his ambiguous stance on issues such as Central America, South Africa, the death penalty, and abortion...
Although the irresolvable nature of Rubin's conflict elicits sympathy in the legal community, some colleagues fault the Miami lawyer for what they regard as his strident insistence on pulling out of the case and disobeying judges. William Surowiec, one of Sanborn's previous lawyers, wonders if the courts could have taken any other position. "What if a person, in an effort to continuously avoid going on trial when the trial date approaches, puts the lawyer in this situation?" he asks. "You would have a defendant who could manipulate the system by doing this to one attorney after another." Henry...
Knowingly or not, Author Sue Miller, 42, has constructed a parable eerily in tune with the waning of the sexual revolution. The heady sleep-arounds of the 1960s, the freewheeling no-fault divorces of the '70s, have given way as the '80s wane to some sour, after-party second thoughts. Could it be that liberation has created problems as crippling as those produced by the bad old repressions...
...been called the homeless capital of the U.S., a third of some 50,000 homeless are believed to be mentally ill, and fear of violence from the deinstitutionalized is common. But the director of the local mental-health association, Richard Van Horn, says "deinstitutionalization itself is not at fault. Adequate treatment dollars did not follow the population into the community." While the Federal Government initially planned to establish 2,000 community mental-health centers for released patients, no more than 800 were ever opened. Dwindling federal revenues have left communities without the means to treat the homeless mentally...
...court undistinguished by the eloquence of its opinions. In one dissent he borrowed from Gilbert and Sullivan to twit his colleagues for arrogating too much power to the federal courts: "The law is the true embodiment/ Of everything that's excellent/ It has no kind of fault or flaw/ And I, my Lords, embody...