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Burnout has a way of turning the sovereign self (as we thought of it once, long ago) into a victim, submissive, but passive-aggressive, as psychologists say; it is like a declaration of bankruptcy-necessary sometimes, but also somewhat irresponsible and undignified. It is a million-dollar wound, an excuse, a ticket out. The era of "grace under pressure" vanished in the early '60s. Burnout is the perfect disorder for an age that lives to some extent under the Doctrine of Discontinuous Selves. It simply declares one's self to be defunct, out of business; from that pile...
Since the prosecutor had known that the testimony was false, Zimmerman believed that New York should compensate hIn for wrongful imprisonment. The doctrine of sovereign immunity bars most such suits against a state, so Zimmerman pressed the New York legislature to pass a special law allowing him to sue. Three times the legislators voted the bill, and three times then Governor Nelson Rockefeller vetoed it. Last week Governor Hugh Carey signed the fourth bill. Lawyers on both sides agree that Zimmerman is likely to win his case. The only question is whether he will be awarded as much...
...their military operations, when State Department Counselor Robert McFarlane met with Begin last week to discuss the use of American weapons. But the Administration was dismayed that the Prime Minister offered not even symbolic concessions in the five-hour session. Said Begin afterward: "If anyone should think that one sovereign country should consult another about a specific military operation to defend its citizens, that would be absurd." Begin neither intimated that Israel would engage in soul searching before undertaking such a raid again nor signaled any possible movement on the stalled negotiations with Egypt about Palestinian autonomy. McFarlane left with...
...superior as works of art; but even third-drawer Shakespeare is pretty wonderful stuff. According to the standard view, Richard was a legitimate but incompetent monarch; Henry IV was capable but doomed by having usurped the crown; and Henry V was Shakespeare's conception of the perfect sovereign, a hero-king with legitimate title...
...Bermuda-based Mineral and Resources Corp. (assets: $2.4 billion), which is already a leading foreign investor in the U.S. through its 27% ownership of the giant Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp. in New York. Last month Mineral and Resources Corp. expanded further in the U.S. with the takeover of Sovereign Coal Corp. in Bluefield, W. Va., Harman Mining in Harman, Va., and Terra Chemicals International, Sioux City, Iowa. If that sort of investment continues, Americans may come to know Harry Oppenheimer as well as South Africans...