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Like many other inner-city school systems, Chicago's has long lived with deficits caused by expensive "special education" programs, as well as soaring payroll and energy costs and time lags in getting reimbursements from state and federal governments (such government payments make up 60% of Chicago's $1.4 billion annual budget). Chicago's schools began to lose their delicate financial balance after plans unexpectedly fell through last month to borrow $124.6 million by selling financial notes to banks and other investors. Analysts at Moody's Investors Service, which rates the quality of investments like...
...stand in one case in order to cultivate Nixon appointee Blackmun, even though Brennan believes that the convicted man deserves a new trial.) Marshall, the only black Justice, has given up. "I'm going fishing," he tells his clerks. "You kids fight the battles. What difference does it make? Why fight when you can just dissent...
...authors use a "just-the-facts-Ma'am" style; though the facts are not attributed, they novelistically include the Justices' innermost thoughts. In the book's final pages, Justice Stevens ponders his first year (1976) on the court. He finds himself "accustomed to watching his colleagues make pragmatic rather than principled decisions-shading the facts, twisting the law, warping logic to reconcile the unreconcilable." Even if it was not what Stevens had anticipated, the book says, "it was the reality...
...case, storytellers have been embroidering on the Nativity texts for nearly 20 centuries. Sometimes it is to make the Holy Family more believable, often it is to make events even more miraculous. Many of the inventions of art and literature are so ingrained that people regard them as part of Holy Writ. The beasts that appear at the manger, for instance, are not mentioned in the Bible. Neither is the number of the Magi. The names Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar and the legend that Balthasar was black were popularized in the 8th century. Partly to make it easier for Catholics...
...first reading with George C. Scott, who stars as a Los Angeles detective involved with both her and a synthetic-oil conspiracy, whatever that is, while investigating a routine murder. Scott found Sanda's French accent so thick that he had difficulty understanding her. That would make for bad acting and a bad movie. Change the fraulein, as Hollywood often does, to a mademoiselle? Great Scott, not in this case. At Scott's insistence, Sanda was paid $350,000, packed off to Paris and replaced by Swiss Marthe Keller. At least that's the reported...