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Strong-willed jurists, pent up together for decades, inevitably feud. Earlier courts were riven by fierce ego and philosophical clashes, like the long-running one between William Douglas, an unabashed activist, and Felix Frankfurter, apostle of "judicial restraint." By comparison, the Burger Court is a pretty tame place. "This court is not characterized by the struggle of titans," says Virginia's Howard. The current Justices are perfectly civil to one another...
...party's soul-has already begun. Says the President's campaign director Ed Rollins: "By Inauguration Day the camps will be divided. There is no question that we are going to have a primary season in 1988 that will make the Democratic race in 1984 look tame. The whole direction of the party, post the Reagan era, is up for grabs...
Utah struggles to tame a body of water turned outlaw...
Cynics say fans come just to see the crashes, but the race there last weekend indicated that as accidents go, they are pretty tame. A motocross crash has none of the explosive finality of an Indy car slamming into the wall at 200 mph. A rider loses control in a jump, hits the ground off balance, falls off his bike, picks it up and starts going again. Crashes serve much more as opportunities for passing than for broken legs. One of the most exciting parts of Saturday's action was in the second-to-last race, when leader Scott Burnsworth...
...media yelping seemed pretty tame, at times, compared with the back biting among some Jackson advisers. One even suggested last week that it was Paterfamilias Joe Jackson's "black-music-business voodoo" that made a large advance from the promoter such a stumbling block and could even have kept his sons from earning still more on box-office percentages. Says the source: "Joe's philosophy is, 'My boys are the biggest, and they get their money up front.' " As a result of all this, in two of the first three cities on the tour, the money...