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...entrepreneur. At a time when corporate America often seemed incapable of daring innovation, the likes of Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates forged breakthroughs in semiconductors, software and personal computers. Even in lower-tech fields, such risk takers as Domino's Pizza Founder Tom Monaghan demonstrated an impressive ability to create new products and services that no dominant corporation could match. "This has been a great age to be living in if you're an entrepreneur," exclaims Alfred Rappaport, a Northwestern University business professor who started his own consulting group in Chicago...
...Orleans Mass, while the city fathers, curing a lack that would never be noticed by the Pope, have imported 60 palm trees from Florida. Mayor Clint Eastwood's day will be made when he greets the Pope in Carmel. And in Detroit, Catholic Laymen Lee Iacocca and Tom Monaghan, of Chrysler and Domino's Pizza respectively, signed a letter raising funds "for the kind of welcome that all of us want to show the Holy Father." General Motors came up with 100 new Pontiac loaners, white with maroon interiors, for use by the papal retinue...
...decisions, even those he believes to be mistaken, once they have become entrenched in law and subsequent court rulings. (He has never said, however, whether he thinks the abortion decision belongs in that category.) "He respects tradition, precedent and continuity in the law," says Columbia University Law Professor Henry Monaghan. "You aren't going to see anything radical out of Bork on that court." The opposition was less sanguine. Says Art Kropp, executive director of the liberal People for the American Way: "By nominating Bork, the Administration has laid down the gauntlet...
...Original intent has a strong gravitational pull," acknowledges Columbia Law Professor Henry Monaghan. But how specific an intent are we looking for? Today's interpreters of the Constitution, for example, would never tolerate the brutality of the criminal punishments that were prevalent 200 years ago -- brandings, say, or the puncturing of nostrils. Notes Federal Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman: "I regard reliance on original intent to be a largely specious mode of interpretation. I often find it instructive to consult the framers when I am called upon to interpret the Constitution. But it is the beginning of my inquiry...
During his presidency in Iowa City, Freedman did not get involved with pro-divestment and anti-CIA student protests on campus, Monaghan said. "The students felt he didn't take a stand on the issue of divestment on any active level," Monaghan said...