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Most of the opposition favors extending the vote to both later-arriving Kuwaitis and women, but there are indications that the Emir will steal their thunder by broadening the franchise himself. "We have botched almost everything since liberation," says Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, the Prime Minister's adviser, "but through politics we now have a chance to recoup...
...Sixty million Americans endure other noise, including the cacophony of city traffic, that is louder than the level the Federal Government deems safe, and 15 million live close to busy airports or beneath heavily traveled air routes. In some neighborhoods of northern New Jersey, more than 1,000 flights thunder overhead each...
...immediate question might be, Why bother? This summer's smash, with $120 million in its first three weeks, is the mucho macho Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But in Hollywood, Armageddon comes every summer. Last year five burly adventures -- Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Another 48 HRS. -- grossed a robust, cumulative half billion. And Batman, good man vs. evil man, was the big warm-weather hit of 1989. Saving the world is man's work, of course. (Blowing it up is too, but that just proves how powerful guys are.) It's men who face...
This brought thunder from Marshall. "Power, not reason, is the new currency of this court's decision making," Marshall wrote. In the cases overturned, "neither the law nor the facts . . . underwent any change in the last four years. Only the personnel of this court did." The implications of discarding established legal principles to pursue a political agenda, he charged, were staggering. High on his list of "endangered precedents" are cases involving the right to abortion, affirmative action, limitations on the death penalty, and separation of church and state. The new approach, he added, "will squander the authority and legitimacy...
...drive through a vicious thunder storm for four straight hours," Buxeda says. "We tried to improvise but gave up after having to stop 10 times when our [plastic bag taped to the window] kept peeling off. And I was afraid that we would get struck by lightning, but all that happened was that we got extremely...