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...extremist of one stripe or another when it comes to debating the legal system. Lawyers are advocates, and for some, no cause is more likely to arouse passion than the defense of a profession that, after exacting a grueling apprenticeship, provides their livelihood. The political system is apt to provide only limited succor; nearly half the members of Congress are lawyers. That is certainly one reason why nonlawyers feel compelled to resort to the weapon available to oppressed people everywhere -- sarcastic humor. (Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial waste and Washington, D.C., so many lawyers...
...from the liberal bastion of former Chief Justice Earl Warren into an aggressively conservative body -- one that seems poised to alter some of the major rulings of the past. To fellow conservatives, the right-wing majority may look like the cavalry galloping to the rescue. Battered liberals are more apt to see them as the ravaging horsemen of the Apocalypse. The only question is how far they will go in undoing the liberal legacy in such areas as church-state relations, individual liberties, the rights of criminal defendants and abortion...
There is a moralistic streak in Tsongas. His speeches are apt to include denunciations against those "who ought to be ashamed of themselves." In conversation, his comments, no matter how calmly uttered, can have a know-it- all ring. He is sometimes referred to behind his back as St. Paul. Still, he does not close off argument and is willing to change his mind. Unlike most Democrats, he supports nuclear power. His conversion occurred after experts convinced him of the lasting, dire effects of oil and coal on the environment...
...staff editorial also warned that Harvard's new prize may be fleeting. "Harvard, if Gates ends up there, should beware: its new star is apt to skip town as quickly as he gets there...
Baker's lonely crossing was an apt symbol for his fourth peace mission to the Middle East since the end of the gulf war. The Secretary has logged 67,500 miles in two months trying to convince the Arabs and Israelis that they should just get together to talk, but his guests would not budge from positions that make a broadly based parley impossible. Israel would not agree to a United Nations presence at such a conference, while Syria said it would not attend without U.N. participation. Israel insisted that the U.S. and Soviet Union be present only...