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...case was atypical, incidental to the major legal issues at stake and, for some time now, moot to him personally. But San Francisco stereo Salesman Jagdish Rai Chadha, 38, provided the unlikely focal point for last week's Supreme Court decision banishing the legislative veto and altering the balance of power in the U.S. Government. Said a stunned Chadha, after hearing the news in a 7 a.m. phone call from his victorious Washington lawyer: "It's kind of overwhelming...
Whether or not daily stresses and hassles do more damage than life-change events may, in the final analysis, be a moot point. A single event can cause smaller changes that touch every aspect of existence. Divorce, for example, "is not an isolated event," observes U.C.S.F. Psychiatrist Leonard Pearlin. "It is accompanied by some social isolation, a reduction in income and sometimes the problems of being a single parent. These become the chronic strains of life...
What becomes most frustratingly clear is that for the groundtroopers, our nations about the war's morality or immorality were moot from the start. In Charlie Company, as Goldman and Fuller tell it, the was as fought was simply futile. "It could have been over in six months," recalls one angry survivor. "Easy We could have took the 57,000 troops that got killed and put them all in a line behind tanks and APCs instead and just started at one end and walked on across the country...
...long Levine will remain at the Met is moot. While he never criticizes Bliss, it is clear that he wants more control. In renegotiating his contract, which expires in 1986, Levine is demanding complete artistic authority over the Met, including a lump-sum budget to spend as he sees fit. "For me," says Levine, "it would mean that any mistake that happens then would happen because I had lousy judgment, instead of a mistake happening because we couldn't time the moves right." Other organizations, among them the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Opera House, approach him with...
KAPUUO WAS ASSASSINATED in March of 1978, about a month before the inauguration. He was shot outside the front door of a store he kept outside the capital city of Windhoek, and questions of national representation becme moot as crowds of his tribesmen and others marched and lamented and staged a massive ritual funeral. Rioting broke out at the funeral and seven Ovambo tribesmen were killed, the climax of weeks of Herero-Ovambo strife. SWAPO leaders denied any involvement, just as they had three years before when Ovambo chief Philemon Elifas was shot to death in a similar incident...