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...varsity Supreme Court to decide those cases that do not quite make the cut. Said Stevens: "Like a new four-lane highway that temporarily relieves traffic congestion, a new national court would also attract greater and greater traffic volumes." Stevens suggested instead shaping such a body into a traffic policeman, with responsibility for selecting the cases the Supreme Court should decide...
When it finally came, the commando-style operation unfolded in typically Swiss fashion: it was a combination of precise timing and meticulous efficiency. At 10:42 a.m. last Thursday, a young, casually dressed, plainclothes policeman placed an aluminum container on the front doorstep of a three-story, white stucco mansion that houses the Polish embassy in the leafy Kirchenfeld neighborhood of Bern. Then the policeman climbed back into his beige Volkswagen and slowly drove away. Seconds later, the parcel exploded. The front door of the residence dissolved in smoke and flame, and some 20 members of an elite Bern police...
Because of the prevalence of construction workers around Lowell and Winthrop, Bossert has asked Cayer to assign a special-duty policeman to guard the premises but has not yet received a response. Cayer could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Despite the dramatic swiftness of the denouement, the early stages of the case were drawn out with all the familiar rounds of inventive appeals. Coppola, a former seminary student and policeman, had been convicted of brutally killing a woman during a 1978 robbery. By last spring, 34 judges had heard his various legal arguments, and still he sat on death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center. Though maintaining his innocence, he dropped his appeals and asked that the execution proceed. "Further incarceration," he said, "can only lead to my being stripped of all personal dignity." His one request: a summer date...
...about" a big bad whale: The film's true subject is how a man of a certain integrity (however sleazy his profession) lives in a world that does not set much store by that quality. It is about how such a man orders a meal, talks to a policeman or enters his apartment alone, with no one to impress except his own sense of himself. Constructed out of a thousand persuasive details, Bob is the rarest kind of fantasy figure: the kind you would like to be, of course, but also the kind you think, for just a moment...