The Monitor From The Week Of August 18-24, 1997

IN PASSING

Hollywood executive Leo Jaffe, who took Columbia Pictures from the brink of bankruptcy to success with movies such as “Kramer vs. Kramer,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 88.

Norris Bradbury, a physicist who led the team that assembled the first atomic bomb and headed Los Alamos National Laboratory longer than any other person, died Wednesday. He was 88.

DECISIONS

The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a constitutional challenge to the 2-year-old law requiring tougher sentencing for people who commit crimes with deadly weapons.

THIS WEEK

Friday: Sentencing in Seattle for teacher who pleaded guilty to rape after a liaison with a student resulted in the teacher giving birth to student’s child. , DataTimes