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...three Hail Marys. At home, at school, in church and even among the police, grownups fail her. The story's most compelling relationship unfolds between Zanny and her adopted sister Dolly, who witnesses the first killing, of their younger brother. Dolly keeps her guard up but never raises a fuss: she wants Zanny's parents to continue paying for her education and shrewdly assesses them as candidates for tacit blackmail. Gill, a former elementary school teacher, has a keen understanding of how children's minds work and of the egocentric way they view the world...
...fuss over the pork-barrel issue masks a significant turnabout in the condition of the nation's highways. In 1982, the last time Congress passed a comprehensive highway bill, the debate was dominated by scare talk of decaying roads and crumbling bridges, complete with suggestions that the nation's transportation system would soon go the way of New York City's abandoned West Side Highway. Experts bandied around figures like $3 trillion for rebuilding America's decaying infrastructure. In truth, the Interstate Highway System was in trouble. Traffic had far outstripped the projections made when the system was initially planned...
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Since Frankfurter's death in 1965, his reputation as a combative and principled jurist has endured. And so have reservations about his penchant for exerting policy influence in questionable ways. The latest fuss concerns his actions in the historic 1954 school-integration case Brown v. Board of Education. Philip Elman, 69, a former Frankfurter law clerk who served as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, says that while Brown was in progress Frankfurter regularly shared with him the confidential views of fellow Justices, which Elman later used when preparing Government briefs in the case...
...fuss over Fujitsu's marriage proposal was colored by wider U.S.-Japanese trade concerns. Schlumberger, the French oil-services conglomerate that bought Fairchild in 1979, had spent $1.5 billion to prop up its subsidiary (estimated 1986 sales: $500 million). No national-security alarms were sounded over Schlumberger's control of the semiconductor firm, which, among other things, provides components for U.S. supercomputers and ballistic-missile systems...