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Most Summer School residents are foreign students, students from other colleges, or adults. About 15 per cent of the Summer School students are at Harvard during the school year. Another 15 per cent are high school students...
...cast their votes. They are known as the "fluid five" or the "floating center." Explains University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "The Justices in the middle are not 'principle' Justices, which is not to say they are unprincipled -just unpredictable." The only real ideologues on the high bench are Rehnquist on the right and William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall on the left. Brennan, often a dissenter in the past, found himself in the majority in several key cases this year, and he wrote the majority opinion in the Weber case. That is an indication, says Stanford...
...year was made livelier by what went on outside the court's marble temple. In April an ABC-TV reporter, Tim O'Brien, leaked the results of some yet-to-be-released high court decisions. The court immediately clamped down on security, limiting the hours when reporters could use the press room in the Supreme Court building and for a few weeks posting a police officer near the room. Then in May, Justice Marshall publicly lashed out at his colleagues for being insensitive to criminal defendants. Marshall, who is reported to be increasingly disaffected from the court, surprised...
Still, journalism in America was a high-risk trade. Editors were always in danger of being challenged to duels or horsewhipped or beaten up by gangs. During the War of 1812, one antiwar newspaper was actually blasted by a mob with a cannon. On the frontier, tarring and feathering editors was a popular pastime. Symbolically, of course, it still is. The press, its reach almost infinitely expanded by electronics, has come a long way since those days. Yet, the public, despite its daily if not hourly intimacy with the press, does not really understand it very well. That lack...
...typical victim of the squeeze is Impresario Sarah Caldwell. Her Opera Company of Boston has led a homeless and precarious existence for its 22 years. The Boston Opera House was torn down the year after the company was born, and the troupe has been forced to perform in high school gyms and even to share the Orpheum theater with rock groups. When Caldwell managed to purchase the mortgage on the Savoy theater last fall, she found that her problems were only beginning. A once elegant vaudeville house, the Savoy had been divided into twin movie theaters by a concrete wall...