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...citizens want their government to turn to the bread-and-butter issues that are the bane of all Nicaraguan existence. The magnitude of the task of rebuilding the shattered country makes Chamorro's advisers optimistic that the cease-fire will hold. Says Gilberto Cuadra, president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise: "Neither the army nor the contras have a future in this country." But cease-fires have been called before in Nicaragua -- and have failed. Chamorro must still make this one stick...
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Katherine White recently ruled against Defense Fund members in a suit designed to halt the project, finding that the plaintiffs had no standing to bring a case against the developer...
...Suffolk Superior Court Judge Haskell C. Freedman '30 ruled that B.U. had violated the law. The university's threat to expel Abramowitz was aimed at quashing his speech, Freedman said. The court imposed constitutional standards usually reserved for government agencies on an entirely private university...
What a difference a year makes. Bursts of applause erupted in Courtroom C of Alaska Superior Court in Anchorage last week, as the jury acquitted Hazelwood on the three most serious charges stemming from the accident. After almost eight weeks and a dizzying parade of witnesses, the prosecution managed to win a conviction on only a relatively insignificant misdemeanor charge: negligent discharge of oil. Judge Karl Johnstone, miffed that Hazelwood had never apologized for his role in the spill, sentenced him to 1,000 hours of cleanup labor and $50,000 restitution to the state, but suspended...
...measures the amount of egalitarianism generated by writers in their books. King, Clancy and Steel achieve highest scores in this category, and Robert Fulghum ranks near the top with a 9.7. They have mastered the trick of making their readers feel not only their equal but frequently their superior. On the other hand, Rushdie and Hawking are manifestly forbidding, the smartest guys in the class. Give them both...