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...appraise the Supreme Court a decade after Warren Burger became Chief Justice, TIME interviewed several of the Justices, dozens of their law clerks, and scholars across the land. One finding: after ten years at the helm of the nation 's highest tribunal, Burger has yet to demonstrate the intellectual or personal persuasion necessary to make him a leader among his highly individualistic brethren. Another: faced with a never-ending array of increasingly complex issues, the court itself is splintered and groping; its decisions often seem inconsistent...
...have held on to a slippery five-man majority. That one-vote edge accounts for rent control in the city of Cambridge. It is also responsible for recently passed limits on condominium conversion. And in large part, those votes have kept City Manager James L. Sullivan at the helm of the city administration...
...today, with a 1-0 Ivy record-thanks to Columbia-Harvard will open with sophomore Mike Smerczynski at the helm, Joe Lahti and Jim Keyte in the wings, and coach Joe Restic at the altar-praying very hard...
...some developing young talent, Harvard's future looks bright. Ethan Berkowitz, a promising freshman from San Francisco, skippered in the "470" National Championships, placed second in the "470" Pacific Coast Championships, and crewed in the Rhodes 19 Nationals for a third-place finish. Freshman Enrique Adsuan was at the helm of a Sunfish in the 1978 World Championships and crewed in Lightnings for his home country of Puerto Rico in the Pan-American Games. Finally Brian Keane, also a freshman, sailed a Laser in the National Sports Festival, where he picked up a silver and a bronze medal. He also...
...Tell me when the economic crisis will terminate and I will tell you when we can terminate martial law. Suppose something happens in Iran, suppose something happens in the Middle East. Suppose you adopt a worst possible scenario: there I am at the helm of government and I have decided on the termination of all these measures-and all of a sudden this economic crisis brings all these problems...