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...display of a creche in a public park. In the other case, a federal court had thrown out an Oklahoma law that authorized the dismissal of public school teachers who advocate homosexual activity. The tie votes mean that the lower-court rulings stand, but the high bench's action has no value as a precedent. The difference between a decision and no decision in both cases was the absence of Justice Lewis Powell, who has just returned to the bench after missing five weeks of oral arguments while undergoing treatment of prostate cancer. Three other tie votes were also announced...
...Burger court is the second oldest in history, with an average age of 70, less than two years younger than the Nine Old Men who made Franklin Roosevelt miserable until they began leaving the court in 1937. The present high bench is "the first ever to have a majority of its members 76 or over," calculates Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even the younger Justices have reached the outer edges of middle age. The youngest, Sandra Day O'Connor, celebrated her 55th birthday last week...
...Franklin Roosevelt--whom fate allowed to mold the court in their own images. For that reason, says Tribe, normally a critic of the Burger era, "I'm for mandatory life-support systems for the current court." But no such emergency intervention is necessary for the moment. The present high bench, with its fragile coalitions and its elderly Justices, seems set to go on, at least for the remainder of this term...
...Seventh Avenue subway line. As the No. 2 express screeched to a halt, Goetz, wearing a blue windbreaker, quickly scanned the cars, looking for a relatively empty one. According to his later statements, he took a seat across from the door through which he entered, on a long bench. Directly opposite him sat Troy Canty, 19; to Goetz's right, on a short two-seat bench, sat Darrell Cabey, 19, and James Ramseur, 19. Diagonally across from Goetz sat Barry Allen...