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...well, or badly, the wheels of justice grind has long intrigued Staff Writer Kurt Andersen, who wrote this week's cover story on capital punishment. The son and grandson of lawyers, Andersen inherited an interest that he cultivated at Harvard by studying the history of rebellion. "Somehow," he says, "I am drawn to issues of crime and punishment. I seem to have a propensity for writing on death, disaster and dementia...
...hard-charging Mexican chains have carefully catered to regional tastes as they have grown. W.R. Grace's El Torito goes so far as to grind its beef in Southwestern cities like Houston and Dallas and to shred it in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where diners prefer it that way. Says Anwar Soliman, executive vice president for Grace's restaurant group: "You have to look at all these subtleties. It's critical in some places, particularly the Midwest." Soliman predicts that Mexican restaurants will double their business by 1985. Many others are bullish as well...
...bodies are the same age as the majority of Politburo members: in their 60s and 70s. Roy Medvedev, the independent-minded Marxist historian living in Moscow, believes that younger men will move into top positions around the time of the 27th Communist Party Congress in 1985. "The political wheels grind very slowly in our country," he says. "A man who suddenly comes out of nowhere, like Jimmy Carter, is an American phenomenon. Here it's like the army. You rise through the ranks, and nobody's going to put a general's uniform on you simply because you're capable...
...sought to shed previous apathy's and get more involved in community life. But, like many other men who served in Vietnam, Vallely had to cope with inner problems of listlessness and boredom. Working from nine to five at a civil engineering firm, he says, eventually became a grind...