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...From his perch on the fringe of the American political spectrum, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has accused Queen Elizabeth II of drug trafficking and blamed the International Monetary Fund for creating and spreading the AIDS virus. Henry Kissinger and Walter Mondale, among others, have earned spots on his list of Communist spies. But last week LaRouche gave his conspiracy theories a more personal and self-aggrandizing touch. In an Alexandria, Va., courtroom, he declared that as a result of his conviction last month on fraud charges, "the vital interests of the United States have been put in jeopardy." A four...
...World," Lyndon Johnson told the astronauts by telephone aboard the carrier Yorktown. "You've seen what man has never seen before." One of those things, which was to grow in significance in forthcoming decades, was the earth's finitude: with Apollo 8, humanity had found a godlike perch from which to examine its collective limits...
Despite the crackdown, thousands of Armenians still gather nearly every Friday in Theater Square, a small plaza tucked behind Yerevan's neoclassical opera house. Around 7 p.m., old women, their heads wrapped in shawls, begin to perch on the steps leading to the theater. Bands of youths, sometimes unruly, wave the orange-red-and-blue Armenian flag, which last flew over the region when it was a free republic in 1920. Later, at about 7:30, a lone bugler approaches a microphone and plays a melancholy tune. When the last note dies, the crowd breaks into a chant: "Artsakh! Artsakh...
...theory, the judicial bench is supposed to be more like a perch, raised far above the turbulent political fray. In fact, with 40 states requiring that at least some judges be elected or confirmed at the polls, the courts are often a major target of voter grievances. This year the nation's most impassioned political campaign may be one aimed at a judge. Opponents of Rose Bird, California's first woman chief justice, are working hard to knock her off that judicial perch. It looks very much as if they will succeed in making her the first member of that...
...Exhibit A in the Chernow case, which brought out all his instinct for courtroom spectacle. "If you bore the jury, you have lost the case," says Lipsig, who just a few years ago helped win a client's lawsuit by leaping several feet up and back to perch on a courtroom railing in order to demonstrate a pivotal event in an assault case...