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...steps. Sometimes hearing the appeal itself is unnecessary. Under the court's civil appeals management plan, opposing lawyers are routinely brought together to explore the possibility of settling the case before the circuit court judges will even hear it. As a result, the number of cases settled or withdrawn before hearing last year in the Second was one-third higher than in the other circuits. If the case goes forward, further separation of wheat from legal chaff occurs. Purely technical motions that may obscure issues or delay hearings are quickly resolved. In simpler cases, lawyers are urged to make...
Friday's story, by J. Wyatt Emmerich, implied (beginning with its headline, "Republican Club Admits Error in Accusation") that the Club had withdrawn its objections to the Constitution. This is completely inaccurate and is the shoddiest piece of journalism we have ever seen: interviews with two Republican Club officers were attributed to one person, no one was quoted accurately or meaningfully and despite what Emmerich reported, neither the Republican Club nor the HRGSA has ever met with Mike Desaulniers, or even heard of him, and if anyone deserves an apology...
...summoned the War Minister the following morning and ordered him to carry out the decisions I had taken. By July 16, 1972, all my decisions had been implemented. As the Soviet Union refused to sell us the MiG-25 aircraft and jamming equipment, they were withdrawn along with the experts...
...matter of timing. Witness a current ad campaign by the California Milk Advisory Board and an aborted one by Finnair, the Finnish airline. The milk ads, which a few years ago might have seemed merely innocuous, are under fire for alleged sexism and racism; the Finnair ad has been withdrawn because of protests that it made light of a subject of growing concern to feminists, judges and others: wife beating...
Biographer Penelope Fitzgerald has a blood knowledge of this charmed band of brothers. Eddie was her father; Ronnie, Dilly and Wilfred her beloved uncles. There was also Aunt Ethel, withdrawn and spinsterly, and Aunt Winnie, boundlessly affectionate. "Enter Winnie," wrote Eddie in a childhood play, "and kisses everybody." Penelope follows Winnie's lead: her family portrait, scrupulously honest, laced with good humor and lovingly crafted, is a valentine to the sort of family that has largely ceased to exist...