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Announcing that he "wants to think about the earth," Justice Rehnquist persuades his brethren to move court sessions outside. "I don't need those drugs any more. Just being alive; just grooving on the universe--that's enough for me," Rehnquist says, adding that he and Justice O'Connor's newborn son would be named "Phreedom...
...novel about Nazi efforts to exterminate gypsies, writes with wit, subtlety and passion. Not all the ire is directed at the death-camp butchers. In passages as sardonic as any ever written about war-bloated Hollywood, Kanfer describes the unconcern of some successful American Jews for their doomed brethren in Europe. It is a part of the terrible secret that Fear Itself embodies in an exciting work of fiction...
...universities have not significantly aided the lower classes. If anything, the gains enjoyed by middle-class Blacks have sometimes served to exacerbate the disappoinements and frustrations of the estimated 35 percent of Black Americans who are currently below the poverty line. The Black poor now see many of their brethren "making it" while their own sad conditions persist of in many cases worsen. One example of the deterioration in the condition of the Black poor is a frightening rise in female-headed households. While in the early '60s 23 er cent of Black families were headed by a female, today...
...commonplace; Egypt's friendship with America was a cornerstone of Mideast stability. By his journey to Jerusalem he had demonstrated to our country, obsessed with the tangible, the transcendence of nobility. In the process he had accomplished more for the Arab cause than those of his brethren whose specialty was belligerent rhetoric. He had recovered more territory, obtained more help from the West, and done more to make the Arab case reputable internationally than any of the leaders who regularly abused him at meetings of the so-called rejectionist front...
After the days of public celebration, the induction of the newest Justice began in private with an absence of pomp. In the court's conference room, before the President and Nancy Reagan, her fellow Brethren, retiring Justice Potter Stewart, and her sons, O'Connor placed her right hand on two O'Connor family Bibles held by her husband John. She repeated the judicial oath to "do equal right to the poor and to the rich...