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...uncommonly volatile one. The now reversed 1976 decision itself reversed a 1968 decision, a constitutional zigzag that scholars believe has never before occurred. And another zag may not be far off. Given the probability that President Reagan will make at least one new court appointment, many observers predict that the states' righters may soon regain control. "The majority thinking in this case is doomed," says Velvel. Indeed, in a surprisingly candid judicial version of "the South will rise again," Justice William Rehnquist, author of the 1976 decision, last week wrote tersely, "I do not think it incumbent on those...
...poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just as quickly when stocks tumbled. To this day he is wary of investing in the market. Says he: "I can't stand it when people try to predict what the market is going to do. It simply can't be done...
...Harvard lawyer Vance said the Brookline appeal confuses "real" and "statistical" deaths. The study, Vance said, did not predict that four people would die, but said that because of scientific uncertainty, the four deaths are "the upper level that the scientific evidence can not rule...
Despite the slow start, industry executives predict that how-to tapes will eventually catch on. "If you look at a bookstore," says Stuart Karl, president of Karl Home Video, producer of the Jane Fonda Workout, "best sellers make up 10% of the merchandise, and the rest is alternative programming--books on cooking, travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette...
Although the major television network employ experts that can predict results without resorting to exit polls, they have defended their use of such data partly because they see the criticism as calling into question their ability to report the news responsibly, she says...