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...true independent, Stevens can be unpredictable in his opinions, but he always considers the effects of a ruling on society. Tends to defer to Congress as a decision-making body, and downplays the authority of the courts. Often sides with Justices Breyer, Ginsburg and Souter, but also writes more lone dissents than any other Justice...
...terrorists in Rome carried no identity papers. But police determined that one of the slain gunmen was only 15 years old. The lone survivor, shot in the arm and shoulder, was too seriously wounded to be thoroughly questioned. He gave his name as Mohammed Sharam, 19, claimed to have been born in Lebanon's Shatila camp, and declared, "I am a Palestine fighter." Blood tests showed that he had taken amphetamines, and police believed that some of the attackers had been high on the drug. Investigators traced a currency-exchange receipt from a Rome bank in the possession...
...balanced by box-office receipts and fund raising. This may seem like mere common sense, but in opera it is a radical approach. Of necessity, she chooses the repertoire carefully and conservatively, this season balancing ham-and-eggers like Butterfly and Traviata with Otello and Die Meistersinger, the lone German entry. "What I've learned," says Krainik, "is that you can have all the art you want if you've got the money...
TIME's choice is ludicrous. It would be much more appropriate to have on your cover the silhouette of a lone terrorist, symbolizing the murder and carnage that occurred in 1985. Dale K. Weighill Farmington, Mich...
...Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet-made ground-to-air missile launcher and fired. The lumbering aircraft shuddered when the rocket found its target, then spiraled earthward, trailing smoke. While the soldiers cheered and slapped one an other on the back, a parachute popped open and a lone figure floated down behind some hills several miles away...