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...very least, the article created consternation on our campus at a time when our immense pride in the team is recovering from the pain of defeat. William L. Green Vice President for University Relations Duke University Durham, N.C. Jackson's PUSH...
...image Waldheim tried to project at the beginning of the campaign, when he was portrayed as "A Man the World Trusts." In recent weeks, however, his campaign has adopted a more defiant slogan: "We Austrians Will Vote for Whom We Want." --By John Moody. Reported by Gertraud Lessing and William McWhirter/Vienna
...duchess, née Bessie Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, came from two of those old Maryland and Virginia families that like to trace their ancestry to William the Conqueror. But the Warfields' relative social prominence was not matched by wealth, especially after Wallis' father died when she was only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced...
...asked Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "wouldn't you concede that the historic role of the Comptroller General is really that of an employee of the Legislative Branch?" No, indicated Ross, the Comptroller was simply a numbers cruncher, "a computator of statutory formulas." Justice William Rehnquist seemed skeptical. Harking back to his days as a Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration, he got a laugh from the courtroom by recalling that "if the Administration wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Attorney General. If Congress wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Comptroller General...
...majority, Justice O'Connor acknowledged that the decision would cause plaintiffs to lose when "evidence is ambiguous," but she concluded that the "Constitution requires us to tip" toward protecting speech. Justice John Paul Stevens did not see the balance that way. In a dissent joined by Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, he called the decision a "blueprint for character assassination...