Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chief Justice and three Associates to the Supreme Court, Ronald Reagan can hardly complain that it is not to his liking. But last week the court proved again how frustratingly independent it can be, decisively upholding the special prosecutors who have bedeviled Reagan's second term. In the process, it also cleared the way for the upcoming trials of the Iran- contra Four: Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. Says Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who sponsored the independent- counsel legislation: "It's a slam-dunk decision...
...ruling Rehnquist noted that the law gives the Executive Branch a measure of control in the selection process, for instance, by allowing the Attorney General to decide when special prosecutors are required and whether to dismiss them for "good cause." For that reason, Rehnquist held, independent counsel is one of the "inferior officers" that the Constitution says Congress may allow department heads or judges to appoint...
...these ingredients of Hispanic feeling are absorbed, along with the Hispanic works that carry them, into the American repertory. In show business they sometimes call this process crossover, the chartmaker's term for the record or film that reaches beyond its expected audience. For many Hispanics, the whole notion is ringed all around with skepticism and mixed feelings. (Who wants to cross over anyway? You come here.) Not everyone is crazy about the term Hispanic, which came into vogue in the 1970s and was seized by marketers; it seems to smudge a dozen separate nationalities into an ethnic blur...
Like his grandly obsessive contemporaries Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, Olmos is a demon for authenticity. To play Escalante, he altered himself physically, gaining 40 lbs. and enduring a tedious makeup process daily to create a balding pate over his thick hair. The actor also spent hundreds of hours studying Escalante's speech patterns on recorded tapes and observing the teacher's mannerisms and personal habits both during and after school hours. "He even wanted to move in with Jaime," recalls the movie's director, Ramon Menendez, "but Escalante's wife wouldn't allow...
...Belmont resident Kim J. O'Neil '92, coming to Harvard was a family decision. Somewhat frustrated by the college application process, O'Neil was attracted to Harvard last fall after talking with her uncle, who is a graduate. "I wasn't really sure where I wanted to go--I had actually been turned off from Harvard for a long time, but then I applied to placate my parents. When I got in I visited some friends of my sister's and found the school a lot less intimidating...