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...speaker could only be Woody Allen, disguised this time as Boris, a 19th century Slav. The label reads "Made in Czarist Russia," but the contents show Allen's familiar shlemiel ticket: the loser, surrounded by a world of hostile, if inanimate, objects...
...Gracious Loser. In effect, Benn had been moved neither up nor down but sideways. As Energy Minister, he will preside over the development of North Sea Oil, the only bright spot in Britain's otherwise cloudy economic future. Lest the oil companies panic, however, Wilson made it clear that Benn will have little hand in the delicate licensing negotiations the government is now conducting with them...
...Benn felt a bit manhandled, he did not say so. In fact he seemed almost to revel in his new public role as a good and gracious loser. "I have just been in receipt of a very big message from the British people," he said in a television interview. "I read it loud and clear." Whether that means he is ready to modify his radically leftist approach to economic policy remains to be seen. At any rate, his politic response to the popular will suggests that Benn, at 50, thinks he is a man with a future. Wilson...
...Winner. At the same time that the Chinese have moved to minimize the influence of Moscow, which Peking seems to regard as the big winner in the Communist victory in Indochina, they have been making some unprecedented gestures toward the big loser, the U.S. Two weeks ago, Huang Chen, chief of the Chinese liaison office in Washington, gave a sumptuous banquet for Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and several other liberal Democratic Senators. With unusual directness, the Chinese ambassador told the legislators that he thought the U.S. should retain a strong military posture in the world to guard against...
Under the so-called American rule, lawyers' fees in the U.S. are not generally charged to the loser, as they are in England, for example. Justice Byron White conceded for the majority that "the encouragement of private action to implement public policy has been viewed as desirable in a variety of circumstances." But, he concluded, Congress has not "extended any roving authority to the Judiciary to allow counsel fees ... whenever the courts might deem them warranted." Siding with William Brennan in disagreement, Thurgood Marshall cited a number of "judge-made exceptions" to the American rule and argued that courts...