Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frustration in Scalia's tone was one sign of the ambiguous results of Reagan's effort to nudge the high bench to the right. In the term just ended, the Justices sent out mixed signals on everything from privacy rights to criminal law. Consider some of last week's other notable decisions...
...Americans are directly affected, the ruling had a potent symbolic value. The men's club is a prime emblem of male bonding, a tree house with more comfortable seating. Men's club members tend to be highly visible figures in the community, the business world, even on the bench; in the past few months, Justices Anthony Kennedy and Harry Blackmun resigned from private clubs that bar women...
...play. Its plot is less confusing (though only slighty less so--in both plays, important questions are left unanswered until the final moments). It also has only two characters. Peter (Eric Oleson), a bland, upper middle-class man much like Daddy, reads and smokes a pipe on a park bench. Jerry (Daniel O'Keefe), an alienated, upset man, confronts Peter and tries to communicate with him and draw forth any sign of life from Jerry's passionless existence...
Gertner cautions that the hardest choice when suing Harvard is to decide whether to file in state or federal court. "The federal bench has a large number of Harvard graduates," Gertner said. "What will someone educated at Harvard Law School and Harvard College feel about this case? You need to take that into account...
...Black-and-White boat, which will consist of bow Jillian Buriak, two-seat Martha Rogers, three Joanna Bench, four Vicky Keane, five Betsy McCagg, six Mary McCagg, seven Karen Weltchek, stroke Juliet Thompson, and cox Leigh Weiss, will race first today, followed by the junior varsity eights, the novice fours and the novice eights...