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Vermonters are not likely to let anyone take Willis Bragg's job away. Says New York University Law Professor Linda Silberman, co-director of the 1979 study of lay judges: "The notion of abolishing the system in Vermont is like tearing down the American flag. It is a unique system, and it is going to remain." -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Richard Hornik/Montpelier
...what's old, in the case currently under consideration, is very new indeed for Linda Ronstadt, 37, whose lovelorn voice has provided rock 'n' roll with some of the best ballad singing of the decade just past. Now, turning to other decades long past and currently in musical disfavor among her peers, Ronstadt has found a fresh direction. What's New, released last week by Asylum, avoids all the obvious routes. Powered by the celestial arrangements of Nelson Riddle, the album is not a sentimental journey, a dizzy camp-out or a show-biz grandstand play...
...creeds are made to be challenged, and by that measure What's New is one of the gutsiest, most unorthodox and unexpected albums of the year. "Linda deserves a lot of credit for having the courage to do such an album, to fly, in a sense, in the face of the times," says Riddle. Comments Ronstadt's longtime producer-manager, Peter Asher: "It's a bold move. I had mixed feelings about how the record would sell, but not about whether she would do it well...
...care too much. I hope they like it, but if they don't there is nothing I can do about it." Or would want to. No one in contemporary rock or pop can sound more enamored, or winsome, or heartbroken, in a love song than Linda Ronstadt. Singing the tunes on What's New, or even just talking about them, she still sounds like a woman in love: "It's like falling for a man. You can't not do it. He might be married or maybe not even like you very much and make...
Some sharp passes by Harvard's Linda Lockhart sparked the 15-4 rout in the second game...