Word: felix
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...make up and adhere to in order to make everything run smoothly. April 15, tax day, is just a date on the calendar; there's no reason it couldn't be April 1 or May 1. It's arbitrary, and arbitrariness is not all bad. (It was Justice Felix Frankfurter who said, "If you can't be fair, be arbitrary," and the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have followed his advice...
...This was Felix Frankfurter's "political thicket," of course, and Chief Justice Rehnquist, with the majority quill, will no doubt be accused of creating his own "safe harbor" for retirement. He got rid of this mess just the way Bush wanted him to, shrugging his shoulders and declaring that it wasn't going to get any better from here. He made life easy for the half-cocked Florida Republicans, patting them on the back and easing them back into their seats. He also came to the very reasonable conclusion that Florida's election apparatus would not bear...
Until recently, Cote d'Ivoire had been considered the haven of political stability amidst the turbulence that has surged in neighboring countries. Located on the southern edge of West Africa, it gained independence from the French under the leadership of Felix Houphouet-Boigny in 1960. He oversaw an economic boom but suppressed opposition and imposed a one-party system controlled by the Democratic Party for 33 years...
...detailed way, and the great thing about the President is that he gets into a detailed level with anybody. I've seen him talk about records with David Geffen, where he can talk about an obscure 1950s bebop act, talk economics with investment bankers like Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner, talk movies with Steven Spielberg or Tom Hanks...
...Dalkon collection joins a large group of historical sources at Langdell, including the papers of Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1861, Felix Frankfurter, the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti and documents from the Nuremberg war trials...