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...Music, where the scholar-practitioner divide yawns as it does in no other department, the debate is as nasty and all-consuming as ever--each departmental appointment is made in the context of the running feud...
Strong-willed jurists, pent up together for decades, inevitably feud. Earlier courts were riven by fierce ego and philosophical clashes, like the long-running one between William Douglas, an unabashed activist, and Felix Frankfurter, apostle of "judicial restraint." By comparison, the Burger Court is a pretty tame place. "This court is not characterized by the struggle of titans," says Virginia's Howard. The current Justices are perfectly civil to one another...
...months, relative calm had settled over Lebanon under a peace plan adopted by its warring factions and backed by nearby Syria. The peace fell apart last week. In the northern seaport of Tripoli, a smoldering feud between a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group known as Tawheed and the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party, whose militiamen are sometimes called the Pink Panthers because of their raspberry-colored fatigues, erupted in the worst violence so far this year. Before a truce was called at week's end, at least 100 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them...
...lies awake as his anxious parents discuss his fate and admonish each other for speaking too loudly, afraid they will let him hear too much. This preoccupation with sheltering the boy from life's cruel realities forms a central theme of the story of a bitter custody feud between two adoptive mothers, who want the boy for entirely different reasons...
Jackson's frenetic mood swings were captured, almost stop-action fashion, in a series of speeches and interviews, followed by clarifying re-interviews. By far the most explosive ran in the Los Angeles Times. In it, Jackson rekindled his smoldering feud with the Jewish community by accusing its leaders of trying "to make me a pariah and isolate our support...