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...financially savvy of the independents is Windham Hill, a Palo Alto, Calif., company started nine years ago by Carpenter-Guitarist William Ackerman, then 26. He borrowed $5 from each of 60 friends to record an album of his own called In Search of the Turtle's Navel. From the outset, Ackerman groomed his disks for the baby boom generation, an audience that he felt was growing tired of rock. He recorded melodic albums like Pianist George Winston's Autumn, which cost just $1,720 to produce but has sold more than 500,000 copies. Some critics regard Windham Hill...
...wanted suffrage, movement and the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Deciding to campaign for the right to vote represented a new stage in feminism--it meant a radical alteration in the legal status of women Forster says that the suffragettes had hoped for too much at the outset--they had hoped that women voting would make the world a better place and in particular improve their own position. Today, women represent only a small proportion of the elected government representatives in the Western world Either women are simply rejecting one of their options of there is something else standing...
...those contrasting statements, which came after 18 weeks of testimony and just a few days before the scheduled end of the trial, one of the most celebrated libel cases in American history was removed from a court of law and placed where legal scholars believed it belonged from the outset, in the court of public opinion. The result seemed to validate the conventional legal wisdom that public figures have little chance of sustaining libel victories % against the press, but to prove as well that their suits can cause significant concern and expense (see ESSAY...
...jurors expressed disappointment at not being called upon to render a verdict. A majority said they had been leaning toward CBS, but some thought each side had presented a substantial case. Said Judge Pierre Leval, who had warned at the outset that the suit could easily turn into a futile effort to re-evaluate the war in Viet Nam: "Judgments of history are too subtle and too complex to be satisfied with a verdict. It may be for the best that the verdict will be left to history...
That's because Quaker Coach Craig Littlepage sat Bromwell down at the outset of his squad's most important game of the season. And Bromwell hadn't tried to strangle an opponent or dropkick a referee; he was merely late for practice last Thursday...