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...carpet IS certainly a long way from the amphitheaters of ancient Rome, where the most highly anticipated entertainment was the gladiator contests. As important as the games themselves???where thousands of boisterous spectators cheered on the gladiators?were the fighters' outfits, including their short-skirted armor and, most memorably, their distinctive sandals, often just a pair of leather soles strapped to the feet with leather guards to protect the shins. Back then, gladiator sandals served a practical purpose, but today?nearly 2,000 years later?they cater to a very different crowd, turning up at modern-day spectacles (think movie...
Urban decline is being stopped by the cities themselves???and by ventures like Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Harborplace. "The rebirth of the cities really started during the past decade or so," Rouse says. "Now we're right on the edge of a big transformation of the central city. Reports of the death of the American city were premature. The American city isn't dying...
...cubist surface was reached, with a sort of gray-brown plasma, the color of fiddle backs, zinc bars and smokers' fingers. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves???a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism's modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer...
...selectivity?meaning the native-born Americans' know-nothing inclination to exclude anyone unlike themselves???proved victorious. In 1921 a new immigration law introduced the principle of national quotas. They were based, somewhat inaccurately, on the different national groups in the U.S. in the 1890s. The figures were changed every few years, but the basic principle was clear in the quotas set for the British (about 34,000), Italians (3,800) and Chinese (105). Even in the Hitler era, when millions needed a sanctuary, the U.S. admitted only about 115,000 refugees from Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s...
...where the court can be expected to retreat most notably from some of the ground broken by the Warren court. The principal target will be the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. Most authorities?except the police themselves???agree that Miranda and other Warren court decisions have not hampered law enforcement efforts appreciably, if at all. Stanford's Amsterdam claims that in practice the rights are meaningless. One federal trial judge is now betting all comers a quarter that Miranda will be reversed outright. Others have suggested that it will...