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These days, however, Mitchelson might want to reconsider. Since he won a highly publicized divorce settlement for actor James Mason's wife Pamela in 1964, Mitchelson has built a multimillion dollar practice helping the likes of Joan Collins, Tony Curtis and Zsa Zsa Gabor get unhitched. Perhaps Mitchelson's chief...
If he hasn't already, Bush should reconsider and confront Derwinski privately before the Senate confirmation hearings. If the nominee responds with hems and haws and, as seems likely, can give no good reason for why he ignored his colleagues' pasts, Bush will have a moral obligation to dump Derwinski...
Despite the nervous mirth, the vote was thoroughly earnest. By a resounding count of 151 to 2, the U.N. deplored the U.S. refusal to grant a visa to Yasser Arafat so that he could address the General Assembly. The Arab- sponsored resolution gave Washington 24 hours to "reconsider and reverse...
But the battle over Roe v. Wade will not be won or lost in the Oval Office or in state legislatures. The showdown will take place where the struggle began: in the Supreme Court. Though the court has not yet agreed to hear an abortion-related case this term, Thornburgh...
For the court, a key consideration will be the legal principle of stare decisis, the policy of standing by settled points of law. According to this doctrine, even if Roe v. Wade were seen by the Justices as a bad decision, revoking it after 15 years might be considered too...