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...been a rough year for some acclaimed writer-directors. They spend all their ingenuity and a good deal of money putting a personal twist on an old genre -- Lawrence Kasdan with his Wyatt Earp western, James L. Brooks with the would-be musical I'll Do Anything, Barry Levinson with his behind- the-screen Jimmy Hollywood -- and what happens? A big nothing. The critics cluck; the public stays home in droves. One hates to see ambitious artists fail, even if their fizzles can be more provocative than the minor films that become major hits. But somehow these men became estranged...
...Sanford Levinson, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, believes the Constitution was indeed intended to protect some personal ownership of firearms, if only because the framers distrusted authority. "The Bill of Rights was basically written by people who had overthrown a government 13 years before," he notes. "They had no great confidence that the new Federal Government would turn out acceptably." But even he admits that "courts are likely to rule that Congress can do almost anything short of an outright prohibition of owning guns...
...England Conservatory Honors Trio Max Levinson, piano; Louise Owen, violin and Sophia Zappi, cello. North House, Holmes Living Room, 8 p.m. Free...
Both the Law School and the Kennedy School joint councils have formed sub-councils to focus on relations between faculty members and their assistants. Shari Levinson, a staff assistant at the Kennedy School faculty-faculty assistant joint council, says the groups were formed to get professors and staff talking to each other...
...Levinson feels the new joint council makes life easier for faculty as well, citing the creation last fall of an orientation program for new faculty members...