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...refill your water bottle, and now, feeling more righteous than is good for you, you ascend purposefully and without pause to the rim and accept the silent admiration of the tourists there, who step back to let you pass. And you stride into the lodge and go to your room and shower and put on clean clothes and order a hero-size gin and tonic and sit on the balcony and look out at the canyon blazing red and orange in the sunset, and you feel a moral superiority that only time can diminish. What is a vacation...
...expectations of the Presidents who pick them. Here it's customary to mention that Dwight Eisenhower, asked to name his biggest mistake in office, replied, "I made two, and they're both sitting on the Supreme Court"--implying that the court mysteriously reshapes the views of those who ascend to it. But that idea doesn't withstand scrutiny, says Harold Spaeth, a Michigan State professor who has spent 40 years demystifying the court. Ike's nominations of Earl Warren and William Brennan were political deals, designed to shore up his support in California and New Jersey and made without regard...
...chosen, Fineberg, Harvard's third provost, would be the first in that position to ascend to the University presidency...