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Douglas' reminiscences are said to have been so blunt that he had second thoughts about having some of them published; many of the sharpest barbs in the original manuscript were toned down or cut out by Douglas and his fourth wife Cathy, 36. Still, the book should bear out the Justice's well-earned reputation as a maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment...
...audience shouted down questioners several times, and on one occasion a policeman had to restrain an angry man from shouting his opinion. Turki, who also said the Palestinians "would be totally self-deceiving if we didn't see the Camp David accords as totally divorced from reality," drew the sharpest reaction from the crowd and from fellow panelists...
...main hurdle to reducing federal spending has become the nature of the budget itself. Most federal spending is now off limits to even the sharpest accountant's pencils. So-called uncontrollable budget items, such as Social Security, Medicare and payment of interest on the national debt, gobble up an increasing share of federal money. Many of these are entitlement programs for which Congress has passed laws establishing the level of benefits that each person receives. Indexing social programs so that recipients will not feel the pinch of inflation has made them still more expensive. In a maddening vicious circle...
Astronomers at Harvard and elsewhere reacted to Huchra's research with approval and cautious acceptance. George B. Field, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the CFA, said it represents the "sharpest indication yet" of Hubble's Constant's true value...
...church to approve the use of artificial birth control, 63% believe it is all right for a couple to get a divorce even when children are involved, 53% think that priests should be allowed to marry, 50% even tolerate abortion on demand. Those stands put them in the sharpest opposition to John Paul II, a firmly conservative occupant of the Chair of St. Peter. One indication of his uncompromising views: the austere Pope Paul VI got 32,357 requests from priests to be released from their vows and granted all but 1,033 of them; the warmly human John Paul...