Word: ruth
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...monolithic and thinks that because Thomas is black, he must represent the views of liberal civil rights organizations. It is demeaning and condescending to try to lump the diverse members of an entire community into one orthodoxy and deem only one view authentic. No one would suggest that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer must reflect "Jewish views," or that Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy must represent "Irish opinions." Moreover, the Supreme Court is not a representative body; its members are appointed for life so that they may act as neutral, dispassionate umpires in the constitutional...
...perennial swing votes, swung regularly to the right. There they met up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the slash-and-burn conservatives. That the term also saw the further consolidation of a fairly reliable four-vote liberal block--John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer--is cold comfort to those four and their supporters. Unless they can attract O'Connor or Kennedy to their side more often, the left wing of the court is in danger of becoming a vestigial organ, visible but pointless...
Just before she was invited to be one of the six women artists who created illustrations for this week's major story on estrogen, Ruth Marten cut off all her hair. "I wanted to see the encroachment of age," she says, striking one of the themes of the story. "I wanted to see how much gray hair I had and clearly see the lines on my face." Like many women her age, Marten, 46, is being encouraged by her gynecologist to try hormone-replacement therapy. She's resisting, and yet, like so many women, she's sorely tempted...
...April 8, 1974, he hit his 715th home run in Atlanta, breaking the career record set by Babe Ruth. Aaron went on to finish his career with 755 lifetimehome runs...
While going after Ruth's record, Aaron receivedan enormous amount of hate mail and death threats...