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...messianic ritual meant to bring back the buffalo and ward off white bullets, the original Ghost Dance movement was not infallible. At Wounded Knee, S. Dak., on Dec. 29, 1890, more than 200 Sioux Ghost Dancers were machine-gunned to death by the U.S. cavalry in the last "engagement" of the Indian wars...
Decision-making is its job, but last week the Supreme Court could not make up its mind in two cases. On both, the justices deadlocked 4 to 4, which meant that the court affirmed the lower court without ruling on the merits.* Such ties do not happen often, but there have now been four this term. The reason is that the newest justice, Thurgood Marshall, has had to disqualify himself from almost every case decided...
Whenever the cost of borrowing swings to extreme highs or lows, financiers regard it as a signal of national ill-health. Last week interest rates for long-term securities climbed to a level that clearly meant economic fever...
...U.C.L.A., it meant an unprecedented fourth N.C.A.A. championship in five years-although to make it official the Bruins did have to report for the Saturday night finals, where their superior balance, quickness and experience overwhelmed a game North Carolina team...
...lecture on the existential human condition). Though Shapiro maintains that he has never paid more than $5,000 in cash for a painting (and seen some appreciate to as much as $60,000), he warns against the notion that art is merely a canny investment. For him, it has meant a "life of involvement. A full response to a work of art is a complex reaction between intuition, thought, knowledge and perception. For me, a painting has to have two things-mystery and authority." Rene Magritte's see-worthy Chant a"Amour is richly endowed with both...