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Title IX, you might or might not recall, was born back in 1972 when the folks down in Washington decided that men and women ought to have equal opportunities to participate in athletics. Last December, in an attempt to explain these regulations, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare--that giant bureaucratic machine which oversees Title IX -- issued more regulations. Those new proposals were originally scheduled to go into effect in April; then HEW said in July; but now, sad to say nobody in Washington seems to know when they will take effect...
However, one part of the film succeeds brilliantly, mostly through the superb performance of Phillipe Noiret as Rousseau, Bouvier's presiding judge. Despite some heavy handed parallels between the two men such as their shared penchant for sodomy and red heads, Noiret lifts his character out of the prevailing "the straights are just as crazy" mold and gives life to this balding judge who still lives at home with his exquisite, adored Maman. Noiret captures the fierce ambition of Rousseau; he yearns for that Legion of Honor medal with all the intensity of a good schoolboy who wants to please...
...United States Supreme Court Monday upheld the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that granted new trials to three men accused of the murder of Andrew P. Puopolo...
Leon Esterling, Edward J. Soares, and Richard S. Allen were convicted of first degree murder on March 24, 1977. Their convictions were reversed when the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled March 9, 1979 that the prosecution had violated the constitutional rights of the three black men by rejecting 12 of the 13 prospective black jurors...
...original trial court ruled that the three men acted in a "joint enterprise," and all received mandatory life sentences with no possibility of parole...