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...Nixonian rubric laid upon the Burger Court is "Strict construction of the Constitution." If history is any guide, critics will soon accuse the court of ignoring this mandate in favor of personal opinions or even partisan politics. And the shrewdest critics will be the nation's ablest court watchers-the legal scholars who often find the court guilty of faulty legal reasoning...
...Ohio's. Thereafter, a succession of charming thieves and defective democrats occupied the presidential palace. The most candid was Alfredo Zayas (1921-25). Upon passage of a multimillion-dollar harbor bill, he announced that he had "300,000 good reasons for signing it." Cuba's two ablest home-grown rulers were the tyrants who followed Zayas. When Dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-33) snuffed out constitutional democracy, he had student and labor leaders thrown to the sharks off Morro Castle. After ex-Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista took over in 1934, he remained, both in and out of office...
Among those present at the press conference were Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin and historians Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, and Henry Steele Commager Jr., '54. Commager called McGovern "intellectually one of the ablest figures in American politics. He has never wavered or wobbled...
...often have trouble with a pyramiding of resources among the ablest students, One student may be an NSF grantee, a teaching fellow and a resident House tutor, while another receives very little financial aid," he said...
...Bible, Jefferson and Kipling; he opposes most civil rights bills and accuses the Supreme Court of killing the Constitution's meaning by "verbicide." But for all his Claghornian pomp and ceremony, Sam Ervin is no archetypal Southern reactionary. He is in fact one of the Senate's ablest civil libertarians...