Word: avoidable
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...federal law are involved. But the real drama lies in whether five Justices will actually decide to do that. Unlike the high court's first ruling in the case, which was carefully if precariously unanimous, the latest one broke down in just the ideological way everyone had hoped to avoid. The five conservatives--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas--voted to issue the stay. The four liberals--Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter--voted to let the counts...
...play Daddy. Its earlier admonition having been ignored, the Supreme Court eschewed subtlety this time and bluntly stopped the Florida Supreme Court in its tracks--and stayed its willfulness. By 5-4, mind you, and Rehnquist doesn't like 5-4 in questions of this magnitude. But to avoid a constitutional train wreck, he was ready for the court to assert itself and thus bring a welcome finality to the postelection madness...
Some things are best left unseen. In the television age, the way to avoid trivialization is to remain veiled. Rehnquist has brilliantly managed the politics of invisibility. The very opaqueness of its workings have helped the court maintain its unmatched authority and supremacy. People tremble before it. Quite an achievement in an age in which people tremble before very little...
...indicate there is room for improvement. We knew that he waited until his third heart attack to quit smoking. We now know that he has gained 40 lbs. since his 1988 bypass and exercises just twice a week. His doctors can do only so much. If he wants to avoid another emergency trip to the hospital, he is going to have to take responsibility for his health and start making some changes...
...increase the risk of heart disease as much as 15%. To lose his excess baggage, Cheney will have to start burning off more calories than he consumes. Exercise, however, is only half that battle. The other half will take planning and portion control. He may not be able to avoid state dinners, but he can push the creamy sauces and fatty meat to the side of his plate...