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While stopping short of reversing Roe, Rehnquist seemed to be inviting a test case that might result in its overthrow. "The goal of constitutional adjudication," said the Chief Justice, "is surely not to remove inexorably 'politically divisive' issues from the ambit of the legislative process, whereby the people through their elected representatives deal with matters of concern to them...
...critical insight or expressive force. When he settled in Bath in 1759, he was determined to be the mirror of the upper 5% of England, the gratin who came there to take the waters, exchange scandal in the Pump Room and pursue their intrigues, sexual and fiscal, in the ambit of the great country houses of Wiltshire and Somerset. This was not a vocation for a social critic. Gainsborough completely shared the values of the class he depicted. If that made his portraits a little monotonous in social tone, it helped save them from the hateful obsequiousness of modern society...
...would be in much more trouble if race was the whole factor in admissions," he said, adding, "This way we know we are safely within the ambit of the Supreme Court decision...
Harvard, too, is an insular community, and its limited ambit is no less confining despite the fact that its boundaries are self-imposed rather than natural. Pummelled by the waters of Brattle Street, buffeted by the roaring English Channel winds of Memorial Drive, isolated by the icy North Sea depths of Quincy Street, Harvard suffocates the adventuresome with the dull academic chatter of the senior common room and the unchanging faces of the dining hall. Like their insulated Old World counterparts, Harvard students conjure up their own voyage imagery, succulent with their peculiar symbols of exotic retreats and flaming foreign...
...only to lose in the Supreme Court by a resounding 8-0 tally in the famous Plamondon case (formally known as U.S. v. U.S. District Court). Wilson nonetheless professed to find sustenance in even that decision, since Justice Lewis Powell had specifically excluded foreign threats to security from the ambit of his opinion...