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...breakdowns. Though any one of the computers can operate the ship on its own, mission rules require all the computers to be in perfect order on launch. Extra computers provide another kind of insurance. If one of the look-alike machines suddenly goes berserk, issuing wild commands, its three brethren will promptly veto those instructions. In other words, the majority outvotes the minority. If the four cannot resolve their differences in a civilized computer way, the back-up will intervene and settle the issue...
...half from central casting and half from the Bible--the prophet come to save a nation, live and in color. His Jeremiad condemned demon government and its lecherous grope for the tax dollar; the reverberations of Howard Jarvis's leap in the dark still echo today, as his spiritual brethren control the White House, the Senate, and apparently, the national conscience...
...also filed a brief, which Cucinotta studies before writing his. He scribbles indignant notes in the margins. To the Government's claim that it can control its agents without court interference, Cucinotta quips, "Like Herbert Hoover?" (He means J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director.) He reads The Brethren, the book on the high court's inner workings...
...including Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, were summoned to Moscow for a secret summit. They later issued a rambling communiqué expressing confidence that Poles "will be able to overcome the present difficulties." The statement also noted that Poland "can firmly count on" the support of its East bloc brethren, meaning that the Soviets were still ready to step in if need...
Dissenting Justice William Rehnquist chided his brethren for not deferring to the legislature's judgment on the law's purpose. Moreover, wrote the court's leading conservative, "the Establishment Clause does not require that the public sector be insulated from all things which may have a religious significance or origin...