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...after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff of folklore...
Much of the current controversy in Russian opera involves repertory. The ossified Soviet opera machinery, reflecting the narrow tastes of its erstwhile Soviet masters, plays only traditional Russian works, rarely touches Mozart or Wagner or anything from the 20th century. The outside world hardly needs new versions of La Traviata, and an indifference to new music also characterizes Western opera. Furthermore, the Bolshoi's traditionalism has helped preserve some splendid but otherwise neglected music. Still, Soviet opera musicians feel constrained and constricted. "The country strives to reacquire its cultural identity, to restore the natural chain of cultural history that...
Marshall's willingness to see broad promises where conservatives saw narrow guarantees was precisely what made them cheer his departure last week. "Marshall's jurisprudence was Exhibit A of the judicial activism that conservatives have been trying to do something about for the last 20 years," complained Alan Slobodin of the Washington Legal Foundation. "He imposed his personal views into clauses of the Constitution where it wasn't authorized...
...former Supreme Court Justice William Brennan used to tell his clerks, "Five votes can do anything around here." That was in the days when Brennan regularly stitched together a narrow liberal majority on a high bench that was delicately balanced between left and right. Those days are over. Five votes can still do anything. But now it's the court's increasingly assertive right wing that usually has them -- and sometimes more...
...another 5-to-4 decision, the court ruled last week that states and local governments may ban nude dancers in bars and other adults-only establishments. The decision was narrow in its effects -- G-strings and pasties make the dancing O.K. under the Indiana ban -- but Rehnquist's defense of the law may open the way to other stricter laws governing sexual conduct...