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Still, there are good reasons for some of the apparent inconsistency. The cases are hard, or they would not be there; and the Justices' cautious, case-by-case approach bespeaks a salutary absence of dogmatism. In addition, this court has inherited the tricky task of defining the limits to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Nine Minds of Its Own | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Helen Gahagan Douglas, 79, actress-turned-politician who as a Democratic Congresswoman from California lost a notoriously bitter U.S. Senate campaign in 1950 to a young Republican named Richard Nixon; of cancer; in Manhattan. The election battle, in which Nixon's attacks on his liberal opponent for being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1980 | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

TRICKY BUG

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, May 26, 1980 | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

Even if resident and non-resident proctors and advisers are equipped with adequate information, Porter says, forwarding particular advice "is a tricky thing." As Lewis says, "I hope people aren't in the business of telling people what to do." Porter and senior advisers James D. Mayer and Evangeline M...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: We Aim to Please... | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

Despite these minor qualms, this particular performance of The Medium has its own evocative strengths. The orchestra, directed by Kenneth N. Getz, working with a rather tricky score of music, does fairly well spinning out inhuman moaning, laughing, crying and sighing, even though it sometimes overpowers the human voices on...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: Laughing at Death | 4/11/1980 | See Source »

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