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...anybody else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status Seekers (1959), a dissection of those Americans who, as the author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that it would damage the egalitarian ideal and hasten the evolution of sharp class lines. What none of the fearful saw was that, given...
Twenty-eight year-old William G. Morrissey walked out of the Middlesex County Superior Court around 4:15 p.m. while a jury of ten men and two women were deliberating charges of rape and kidnapping against him, David M. Siegel, assistant district attorney for Middlesex County said yesterday. Morrissey told Paul A. D'Agostino, his attorney, that he was going to get a cup of coffee, Siegel said...
...district court decision is the lowest rung on the legal ladder. If a request for reconsideration is denied by Sherman, the city represented by new lawyers will likely ask for a stay first from district court and then from Superior Court...
Despite the lack of competition, Harvard performers turned in superior efforts. Kim Johnson shattered her Harvard shot put record, sending the shot 45 ft., 2 in. to add almost a foot to her previous best, set in last week's meet against the University of New Hampshire...
...September the Sandinistas declared a "state of economic emergency," banning strikes, profiteering and the distribution of news or information deemed to be injurious to the economy. The government also increased its attacks against the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, known by its Spanish acronym COSEP, which represents the beleaguered 50% of Nicaraguan private enterprise that has not been nationalized since the 1979 revolution...