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...really controversial rulings Roberts has joined as a federal judge came down earlier this month, when the court said that prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay are not protected by the Geneva Convention and can be tried by military commissions. Roberts dissented in 2003 when his own court refused to rehear Vice President Dick Cheney's appeal to keep secret records from the meetings of his energy task force. Cheney had argued that handing over such documents would violate executive privilege...
...great friend of mine," President Bush said last week in response to the conservative assault over Gonzales' ambiguous views on abortion. "When a friend gets attacked, I don't like it." But Democrats--who blasted the former White House counsel during his Senate confirmation hearings for calling the Geneva convention "quaint," among other things--have also had unexpectedly kind words. "Alberto Gonzales is qualified," declared Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. "He's Attorney General of the United States and a former Texas judge...
...treaty is still in force; the offensive agreement was replaced in 1979 by SALT II, which was never ratified and which expired last year but still serves as a check on the arsenals of the two sides while they try to negotiate a new set of agreements in Geneva...
...before the President leaves office. In recent months, Reagan has hinted that in exchange for the right Soviet concessions, SDI may be negotiable. One of his most conciliatory statements came on June 19 in a speech to a high school graduating class. He praised the Soviets' latest proposals in Geneva and said he was hoping that Gorbachev would "join me in taking action--action in the name of peace." The site of that speech was Glassboro...
...career as a teacher at Wellesley and Cornell, his cross-country butterfly hunts, his friendship and falling-out with Edmund Wilson and the sensational success of Lolita, which freed Nabokov from the academy and allowed him to live in an old-style luxury hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva...