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...President's third and most important requirement was that the nominee fit his definition of "strict constructionism." The term is elusive and, to some, meaningless. Says the University of Chicago Law School's Harry Kalven: "The Constitution is full of grand ambiguities. How can you have strict construction of a grand ambiguity? The real issue is: What is responsible justice?" Last week in his television speech, Nixon suggested his own definition: "It is my belief that it is the duty of a judge to interpret the Constitution and not to place himself above the Constitution . . . He should not twist...
...decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. Most authorities?except the police themselves?agree that Miranda and other Warren court decisions have not hampered law enforcement efforts appreciably, if at all. Stanford's Amsterdam claims that in practice the rights are meaningless. One federal trial judge is now betting all comers a quarter that Miranda will be reversed outright. Others have suggested that it will simply be eroded. The right to counsel can probably not be materially cut back; whether it will be extended is another matter. The right to a unanimous...
...search team considered thousands of possibilities, including meaningless letter combinations clacked out by computers. Because the new trademark might eventually become global, one of the company's existing brand names, Enco, was quickly discarded. In Japanese it means "stalled car." At last, after polling 7,000 consumers and testing names in 55 languages, the company chose the computer-produced name of Exxon. Its basic appeal, explains one oil executive, is that "it says nothing and it means nothing...
...unacceptable. The purpose of an Affirmative Action Plan is to set forth specific and result-oriented procedures to which your institution commits itself to apply every good-faith effort. The objectives of these procedures plus such effort is equal employment opportunity. Procedures without effort to make them work are meaningless; and effort, undirected by specific and meaningful procedures, is inadequate. An acceptable Affirmative Action Plan must include an analysis of the areas within which the contractor is deficient in the utilization of minorities and women and, further, must state goals and timetables to which your good-faith effort must...
...Joel Polinsky, you begin to wonder why, if they are seriously interested in this acting business, they don't join up with a real troupe of actors. Joel, especially, has a nice manic quality, making him a kind of elongated Eliot Gould. But "Changes" is just too riddled with meaningless pretention to challenge what talent is there. Take its subtitle for example--"An Original 'Circus-of-the-Mind' Tragi-Comedy in Three Episodes"--no actor should have to pretend to be performing in such a cerebral bigtop...