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...with the era of the machine gun, of the celebrity poisonings, of the union-busting towns in the West that were run for and by thugs. Lead ruled in such towns, and in the cities too, and brought all the social amenities usually associated with superior firepower. There was Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone. There was Bonnie and Clyde and J. Edgar Hoover. America was well on its way to becoming the single most violent nation on the face of the earth, and yet mystery writers were still trapped in a Gothic sinkhole...
Although highly successful in the senate, O'Connor grew restless and decided to return to law. She ran and won a spot on the Maricopa County Superior Court bench in 1974. Explained her senate colleague Anne Lindeman: "At the end of her term she was at a crossroads. She had to choose between politics and the law. She was more comfortable with the law." Said O'Connor about the law: "It is marvelous because it is always changing...
Women lawyers and judges greeted the O'Connor nomination last week with a mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism. "If she is superior, she will help the next generation of women," says Banks, "but she will be judged more harshly than men." As Hufstedler sees it, having a woman on the highest court has "significant symbolic importance." But she too is wary: "There can be such a thing as a token woman on the Supreme Court to avoid addressing women's issues." For most observers, the real test is whether Ronald Reagan is about to depart from his early...
Henry V itself concludes a tetralogy that covers 24 years of English history. The three plays that come first--Richard II and the two parts of Henry IV--are far 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...
...State Department regulations, says Young, "only rarely can we catch anyone as calculating as Bell." According to Kenneth Kaiser, an agency counterintelligence supervisor in Chicago, Poland is particularly active in the pirating of corporate data. Says Kaiser: "While the Soviet KGB gets all the press, Polish intelligence is perhaps superior. They, however, could care less about military intelligence; they want economic and scientific secrets. Their objective is to short-circuit development costs and undersell us." And, as the Zacharski case suggests, they are good at finding friends in the right places...