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Still, court watchers like to try to find correlations between a judge's background and how he decides cases. And biography may have played a role in this one. The Florida Four--the justices who voted for the recounts--are all outsiders of one sort or another. Quince has spoken publicly about facing racism and sexism in her career: at her first trial as a lawyer, the judge assumed she was the defendant. (And at the first oral argument in this case, when other justices were scrupulously referred to as "Your Honor," Quince was at one point addressed...
...result of dirty laundry, unrefundable airline tickets and weekends spent doubled up in scarce hotel rooms. But it's actually the passion to be first, even at the cost of being wrong, as election night proved. Reversing themselves several times didn't encourage the networks to admit at four in the morning that the race was too close to call, that we were in a statistical dead heat and the outcome would have to await, at the very least, an automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate...
...Four justices of the Florida Supreme Court changed those laws last week, long after the election was over. They are not supposed to do this. Judges aren't supposed to write law because they aren't responsible to us in the same way legislators are. And when they do, it is no trifling matter. It is an assault on the barriers that free people construct to separate themselves from chaos. The barriers have been breached, and the justices have offered us a terrifying glimpse of chaos. Come to think of it, maybe conservatives--maybe everybody--should be enraged after...
...Antley was also aging. Thirty-four this year, he discovered that his body, characteristically diminutive as jockeys, go, no longer reacted to the regimens he used to keep himself in racing trim. Jim Herzfeld, a screenwriter who lives next door to Antley's home in Pasadena, Calif., recalls that Antley talked about quitting. "He said it was too hard for him, not being able to eat what he wanted," Herzfeld recalls. Antley complained that unlike other jockeys, he had never been very good at "flipping," his term for vomiting to keep the weight off. When the police found...
Late last Monday, Lieut. Colonel Yossi Mor peered through the 3-in.-thick bulletproof glass on the guard tower at Rachel's Tomb. The Jewish holy site had been under fire from three sides for four hours. Bullets slammed into the glass, bludgeoning it with starfish cracks, like ice on a pond. Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct...