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...becoming a hockey player," says Bentkowski, who hails from Buffalo, "but I was a rare combination of lack of size and lack of speed." The world of magazine design was the obvious beneficiary. After graduating from Pratt Institute, he worked on a host of publications, among them Saturday Review, L'Express, the New York Times and the Atlantic...
...toward oligopolies that could already be stifling the very competition that deregulation was supposed to stimulate. Another ominous trend is the increased evidence of corporate corner cutting when it comes to safeguarding the health and safety of workers and customers. Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, writing in the New York Review of Books, bemoans a "climate of deregulation pushed to dangerous extremes." Result: the beginnings of a blistering debate about the impact of the decontrol era, and a movement to re- regulate. In a growing number of cases, Congress is viewing too much corporate freedom as a dangerous thing...
Among Third World nations, India has often seemed the most faithful to its U.S.-inspired constitutional ideals. The world's largest democracy included a declaration of "fundamental rights" in its 1949 charter and backed them up by borrowing the U.S. system of judicial review. "Thank God they put in the fundamental rights," says Nani Palkhivala, a constitutional expert who was India's Ambassador to Washington in the late 1970s. He observes, "Since 1947 we have had more harsh and repressive laws than were ever imposed under British rule." Indian courts, however, overturned most of them...
...major ruling is announced or a Justice resigns, as Lewis Powell did last week, public attention briefly turns to the court. But for the most part the Justices work in a hushed corner of the public arena. An average of 5,000 cases a year are submitted for their review, and they normally select 150 to 180 on which to hear oral arguments and render written decisions. The Justices begin that process at regularly scheduled discussions. Usually just after 3 p.m. on Wednesdays or at 9:30 a.m. on Fridays, they enter a spacious, oak- paneled conference room, located behind...
...part that the death penalty was disproportionately applied to killers of whites. But the Supreme Court rejected that argument in April, resolving the last major constitutional question about capital punishment. Louisiana would have racked up five executions in eleven days, but the Supreme Court, to allow a possible review, stayed the electrocution of Mass Murderer Leslie Lowenfield...