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...cover can still be seen on TV. It is used in a series of commercials for the magazine, including one that shows a man on a park bench reading the issue while an infant nearby stares at Lisa's picture. "Every time one of those ads runs," says Lisa's father William, 34, a New York City policeman, "we get phone calls from friends, and the guys at the precinct will say, 'Hey, I saw Lisa on TV again last night...
...fastball but that he never threw at the batter. So Cobb crowded the plate and worked the fireballer for walks and opposite-field hits. Cobb often drooped listlessly at the plate, then ran the bases furiously, colliding with infielders and leaving their blood in the dust. All along, he bench-jockeyed with the worst of them. More than the changed quality of travel or gloves, the widening of the country or the times of the games, the exclusion of black players in Cobb's day may be the best point on Rose's side of the comparative arguments. But Cobb...
...advertisement begins: "Imagine if the Far Right had veto power over America's judges. They do." This salvo, from the liberal activist group People for the American Way, is aimed at President Reagan and his intensifying drive to create a staunchly conservative federal bench for America to remember him by. Liberals have good reason for concern. To date the Senate has approved 223 of Reagan's meticulously screened appointees, or roughly 29% of federal judges. By the end of his tenure he may top the 50% mark, not a surprising rate for a two-term President. But because...
...intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals [who will not be guilty of] disenfranchising the people through judicial activism," exulted the President in a speech to federal prosecutors in Washington last week. To end years of what he called "political action or social experimentation" from the bench, Reagan favors judges who follow the so-called doctrine of original intent, under which courts avoid rulings not clearly envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. In recent weeks Attorney General Edwin Meese has put signposts on these principles by attacking some pivotal Supreme Court decisions, including the Miranda ruling that...
...Administration opponents, that kind of judicial restraint sounds like an attack on three decades of decisions expanding basic rights. Liberal Justice William Brennan was sufficiently troubled to make a rare off-the-bench speech on the subject. "We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th century Americans," Brennan unrepentantly told a Georgetown University audience three weeks ago. It is "little more than arrogance" to believe that anyone can "gauge accurately the intent of the framers." Last week Moderate Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in with remarks to a group of Chicago lawyers, attacking...