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...layman formula of the bestselling In Our Defense, a book on the Bill of Rights that she and Ellen Alderman, a friend from Columbia Law School, wrote in 1991, Kennedy and Alderman have produced The Right to Privacy (Knopf; $25). The new book skillfully weaves together unfamiliar, dramatic case histories with a survey of the laws governing what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called "the right to be let alone." Looking at assaults on privacy by, among others, law-enforcement agencies, the press and new technologies, the authors show how vulnerable average people--not merely the Kennedys among...
...case with intelligent work, suggests Curator of Drawings William Robinson. On the contrary, the most perfect exhibit ever at the Fogg, he says, was a collection of landscapes by Dutch master Jacob van Ruisdael that was shown in 1982. "Director Seymour Slive successfully combined a major artist's unfamiliar, though brilliant, work with exemplary scholarship, and 2,500 people came on a single afternoon...
...wonderful color tones and an agreeable pace, is certainly the strongest. Here, the Hughes Brothers can allow their young actors to be themselves. As "Menace II Society" proves the more the Hughes' films reflect their own experiences, the more successful the films are. When "Dead Presidents" launches into territory unfamiliar to these young directors, the film is in trouble...
...easy to forget that she was only a freshman: Stauffer was the focus of offense. Yet while becoming a familiar name and face in the world of Harvard athletics, New Canaan, Conn.-resident Stauffer was also becoming acclimated to the unfamiliar college arena, where papers, exams, academic stress and Union food are a way of life...
Stille's first book, Benevolence and Betrayal, was a gently empathetic account of Italian Jewry under Fascist rule, focused on the misfortunes of five families. Excellent Cadavers has a broader, bloodier scope, and at times readers may find themselves lost in a thicket of unfamiliar names. Stille clearly struggled to humanize his two heroes, whom he never met, and the book's last section, which describes the maxi-trial's political aftermath, seems rushed and scrappy. Excellent Cadavers, nonetheless, is a strong tale of a drama in progress: the Mafia may have been badly bruised...