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...million viewers on 184 stations, and its presiding jurist, retired California Judge Joseph A. Wapner, has become a cult hero. Its success was followed in 1984 by a revival of the venerable series Divorce Court, now seen on 150 stations. This fall two more TV tribunals have been convened: Superior Court, which re-enacts civil and criminal cases (132 stations), and The Judge, dramatizing disputes in family court (81 stations...
...lawsuits. On Divorce Court, the litigants are portrayed by actors, and the testimony, heavily spiced with tales of adultery and kinky sex, is scripted. The attorneys, however, are played by real lawyers, and the decision is left up to the judge, William B. Keene, a retired California jurist. On Superior Court, all the participants are played by actors, and the proceedings -- including the final decision by Judge William D. Burns Jr., a Los Angeles municipal-court commissioner -- are totally scripted to reflect the outcome of similar real-life cases. The Judge, with a title character played by Actor Bob Shield...
...however, the distance between the Square and Radcliffe Quad cannot be changed, the quality of life there surely can. While river residents enjoy proximity to the Yard and the Square, Quadlings could be compensated with superior facilities and rooms. It's a fair trade, one likely to entice enough students to Quad themselves voluntarily...
...important to realize that inherent in any language is its constant subjectability to change. No language, despite the grandest efforts, can resist change over time. Any perusal of texts from a wide variety of time periods will reveal this. No stage of a language is inherently superior to any other, since language naturally adapts to new environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language...
...laserwriter is fairly simple--for a demigod, that is. It produces near typeset-quality printouts in less time than an image-writer or other dotmatrix printer can turn out draft-quality work. Far superior to daisy wheel printers, the laserwriter is also at least five times faster...