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...this time Harris, 41, didn't have to wait. To the amazement of seasoned court watchers, the Supreme Court last week issued the equivalent of a judicial telegram, a terse, 9-to-0 decision in Harris' favor. It came only 27 days after oral arguments, a period so brief as to be virtually unprecedented. In a court renowned for innumerable footnotes and ponderous opinions, the Justices took a concise eight pages to clarify the standards for sexual harassment under Title VII, the federal discrimination law. The court's dramatic decision was no accident. "By acting quickly and unanimously, the court...
...three columns a week for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and I write for Fort Worth very specifically. I think I'm supposed to try and do one non-Texas column a week but I kind of never pay any attention to that...
...serious blurbs. For Chrissakes, Lawrence, Mass. is burning down in a wave of arsons and after a year and a half the two full-time cops on the Mary Joe Frug case haven't any idea who murdered her. So give it a year. Next year, send us a telegram or something; tell us how Sgt. Centrella is doing on the Frug case and what the list of Harvard cultural elite looks like...
...publication of some of this material in a Soviet magazine three years ago prompted a flood of recollections from other witnesses and led Radzinsky to distant provincial archives. He discovered a telegram that the local Bolshevik leaders had sent to Lenin the day before the killings. "The trial agreed upon . . . cannot bear delay, we cannot wait," it read, referring to earlier discussions in Moscow. "If your opinion is contrary inform immediately...
...long been discredited in the West, but a statement from Alexei Akimov, who in 1918 had served in the Kremlin as a guard to Lenin, completed the case against the Bolshevik leaders. "When the Ural Regional Party Committee decided to shoot Nicholas' family, the Central Executive Committee wrote a telegram confirming this decision...