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...time Felix Frankfurter came to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939, he had fought monopolies, defended striking workers, taught law at Harvard University, and written frequently for the New Republic. So maybe it was sheer momentum that kept him dabbling in public affairs from the bench. He remained one of Roosevelt's closest policy advisers, even though doing so offended the monastic ideal that judges must be "less worldly than others in order to be more judicial" -- as Frankfurter once...
...ensuing 120 seconds, however, Harvard never got close to notching the first score of the game as the Falcons played an agressive man-down defense. As Flichel skated out of the sin bin, the Bowling Green fans and bench began to cheer...
...doesn't mind being in the crowd. It even reminds him of being on the bench sometimes. The excitement is still there...
...Sometimes there's not much difference," Howley said. "You get carried away and you feel like you're on the bench...
...Americans will have developed AIDS by the year 2000 if no cure or vaccine is discovered before then. Courts and administrative agencies in about half the states have already decided that AIDS falls within the scope of state-level disability statutes. Last week's decision from the high bench sent a complementary message. "The message is of common sense in a time of crisis," proclaimed Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights organization. "It is that people deserve individualized treatment, compassion and fairness...