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...difference between this corporation and others is that its "stock-holders" all live in one geographic area. And, above all, it is controlled one-man, one-vote by the neighborhood. Anyone in the neighborhood can become a member simply by signing up--and has voting power equal to anyone else...
...One-Man Show. Ascoli and his wife Marion Rosenwald, a Sears, Roebuck heiress, wearied of making up deficits. Very much the editorial autocrat, Ascoli had trouble grooming a successor. He hired a succession of distinguished editors: Harlan Cleveland, Theodore H. White, Theodore Draper, Irving Kristol. But none of them stayed very long. Through it all, the Reporter remained steady, sober, unsensational...
Various publishing houses offered to buy the Reporter and keep it going, but Ascoli considered it too much of a "one-man show" to sell it. He says that "My answer to them was: Is your daughter for sale?" He even hopes to keep the copyright of the name after the magazine folds. The Reporter, however, will not completely disappear from view. "I'm not abandoning ship," insists Ascoli. Two topnotch reporters, Meg Greenfield and Denis Warner, will be transferred to Harper's magazine, which is striving energetically to keep up with the times. Ascoli will contribute...
Class actions provide a way for the claims of many individuals to be settled at one time, eliminating repetitious litigation and providing an economical way to obtain redress since the legal fees can be taken from the total damages awarded. Such important cases as the school-desegregating Brown v. Board of Education and the one-man one-vote Reynolds v. Sims were both class actions. And the practice is now likely to grow more common. The reason is a 2-to-l decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City on what may be the largest class...
...sequences are gone, most of the cutting consists of shortening lengthy shots which dwelled on slow and difficult operation of space-age machinery. Kubrick probably regrets his current job of attempting to satisfy future audiences: the trimming of two sequences involving the mechanics of entering and controlling "space pods," one-man space ships launched from the larger craft, may emphasize plot action but only at the expense of the eerie and important continuity of technology that dominates most of the film. 2001 is, among other things, a slow-paced intricate stab at creating an aesthetic from natural and material things...