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• In "Arguendo," four members of Elevator Repair Service play eight of the court's nine justices as well as the two opposing lawyers. The actors rigorously follow the transcript -- they even cough and include "umms" heard on tapes of the argument -- but they also move about the stage in choreographed rolling office chairs.
• "I saw in this case a combination of a kind of entertaining back-and-forth and also something that really pressed some genuinely intellectually stimulating questions," said director John Collins, who helped create Elevator Repair Service in 1991.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Saturday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2012. There are 360 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 5, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Elizabeth Dole to succeed Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation; Dole became the first woman to head a Cabinet department in Reagan's administration, and the first to head the DOT.
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• On this date:
• In 1589, Catherine de Medici (MEHD'-uh-chee) of France died at age 69.
• In 1781, a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va.
• In 1895, French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, was publicly stripped of his rank. (He was ultimately vindicated.)
• In 1896, an Austrian newspaper, Wiener Presse, reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen (RENT'-gun) of a type of radiation that came to be known as X-rays.
• In 1925, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming became America's first female governor.
• In 1933, the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, died in Northampton, Mass., at age 60. Construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge. (Work was completed four years later.)
• In 1943, educator and scientist George Washington Carver died in Tuskegee, Ala., at age 81.
• In 1949, in his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal.
• In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to (Continued on page 43)
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