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...like a vague intrusion, a series of flickering images we can turn off at will. Then there are times when the outside world is too much with us, when external events take on emotional freight, not only because of what they are but also because of what they might portend. Last week was one of those times...
...past truly does portend the future, Harvard--the lone Eastern squad in Detroit--has to be the decided underdog. Western teams have captured 31 of the 39 NCAA hockey championships...
...tremors portend the "big one" that Californians have feared for decades? No, say experts. Robert Uhrhammer of the University of California seismographic station in Berkeley called the succession of earthquakes "pure coincidence." Said he: "There is no evidence that other earthquakes are any more likely now than at any other time...
...Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men. So too, when the state of nature is disordered, do they often portend the same upset in the nature of the state. It therefore seemed a distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept...
...itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority." For years conservatives have attacked judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices, for reading their own moral and political views into the Constitution. White's opinion was an unusually explicit acknowledgment of that criticism by a Justice, and it may portend greater deference by the court to the actions of elected officials...