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...worked with the best kids in the nation," said Francis Donahue, who is retiring after 50 years as business director of the Yale Daily News. The kids -the likes of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. and National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr.-have collected $80,000 to buy Donahue an annuity. Who was the most impressive chairman of the News during his half century? "Buckley, hands down," says Donahue. "He'd always throw out ads to run anti-Buckley letters...
...into the confidence of the illegal entrepreneurs unless he has something of value to offer them." Treading a delicate line, Rehnquist ruled that "it is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind of the defendant" that the official conduct becomes unacceptable. Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall constituted a dismayed minority. As Stewart said: "The purpose of the entrapment defense cannot be to protect persons who are 'otherwise innocent.' Rather, it must be to prohibit unlawful governmental activity in instigating crime." The focus, in other words, should...
...case challenging Texas' school-finance system, Justice Lewis Powell wrote that "education is not among the rights afforded explicit protection under our Constitution." He further contended that "where wealth is involved the Equal Protection Clause does not require absolute equality or precisely equal advantages." Potter Stewart, who provided the critical fifth vote, explained that the "clause is offended only by laws that are invidiously discriminatory-only by classifications that are wholly arbitrary or capricious." Although all the Justices agreed that the current system is a mess, the majority felt that changes should be made by state legislatures, while Dissenter...
...humanoid named Johnnie Whitaker, on leave from his true calling, which is shilling for a line of kid's clothes. Jeff East plays Huck like an old-fashioned fraternity boy dressed up for the Sadie Hawkins Day dance in Al Capp's Dogpatch. Warren Gates as Muff Potter and Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly struggle against the killing banality of Taylor's direction; but only Jodie Foster, as Becky, suggests that she somehow remembers what it is like to be a real person in a real world. · Richard Schickel
Child. Her father, who has been living alone in a cabin on a remote northern Quebec lake, is reported missing. Accompanied by her lover (a failed potter) and another couple, who use the occasion to film a glib backwoods documentary ("A marginal economy and grizzled elderly men, it's straight out of Depression photo essays"), the daughter returns to this scene of her childhood to hunt for her father...