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...actors also are not strong enough to provide the momentum to carry this play for a full three hours, until what had been challenging and shocking at the outset is no longer even interesting. But despite its potential for inaccessibility, Bent deserves to be seen for its story, which is as urgent now as it would have been 50 years...
...outset of the new court term, all eyes are focused on the pivotal figure of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Nominated by President Reagan last year, Kennedy, 52, could be the man who finally tips the scales to the right. "Can Justice Kennedy be the answer to conservatives' prayers?" asks Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation. "All the early data are good." Indeed, in 13 cases last term in which the court split 5 to 4, Kennedy voted with a conservative majority eight times, including the stunning decision to reconsider Runyon. Says University of Virginia government professor David...
...Challenger explosion confirmed what some critics had been saying from the outset: the U.S. had grievously miscalculated in putting all its space eggs into the shuttle basket. The Pentagon, long suspicious of the shuttle's reliability, wrangled appropriations from Congress to build eleven Titan 34-D rockets for military missions. The nation's scientists, for their part, despaired as the eagerly awaited shuttle launch of the Hubble space telescope, which could revolutionize astronomy by extending our view to the edges of the universe, fell years behind schedule. Crucial deadlines were missed for shuttle launches of the planetary probes Magellan, designed...
...outset of his daily news briefing yesterday, Fitzwater disclosed that the administration had received information from a third-party government in the region that a hostage release was imminent. He would not identify the government involved, but Syria's foreign minister spoke of an imminent release...
Shapiro was formerly the president of the University of Michigan, and last year became Princeton's first Jewish president. From the outset, he began to exploit the symbolic role a university president can play. When he arrived, he invited all faculty and staff members in the university to attend his inaugural party, rather than following the traditional format of an invitation-only, black-tie event...