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...normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character of the law in our justice system...
Unlike most Italian politicians. Andreotti is not a flamboyant orator. He speaks like a man reciting the Rome telephone directory. He is a tactician, not a grand strategist in the mold of his longtime colleague Aldo Moro, who was kidnaped on the day Andreotti's Cabinet was sworn in. "I'm not too keen on ideological discussion," Andreotti once conceded. "I couldn't tell you if Marx is better than Proudhon and if Lenin is a good or evil genius in history." Fabrizio Cicchitto, a Socialist Deputy, claims Andreotti displays "a willful absence of long-range vision...
...bunch of racist, ignorant derelicts and perpetuated the misconceptions concerning a strong, vibrant community. My letter is not an attempt to whitewash the racial violence that has occurred in South Boston but instead to criticize anyone who seeks to rubber-stamp communities or people as belonging to a certain mold...
...more liberal states was transformed by Republican Lee Sherman Dreyfus, 52, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, who was seeking office for the first time. He unseated Acting Governor Martin Schreiber, 39, a career politician. Yet Dreyfus, who describes himself as a maverick in a populist mold, saw no ideological portent in his victory. He was elected, he said, "not because of what I was, but because of what I was not. I was beholden to no one, backed by no special interests and had no debts." In Iowa, the voters' toss-'em-out mood benefited Conservative...
Life in China begins before dawn. On city streets, which are the patios and front yards of the oppressively cramped worker, mothers braid daughters' lustrous black hair in time for school, sisters hang out the laundry on poles, grannies mold patties of coal dust and mud, fuel for the evening meal. Aunties hurry home with the rice ration in open bowls. Fathers split wood, small children chop vegetables. Good ole boys play Chinese chess or pai-fen, a complicated poker...