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...basic question is whether there is a national will to push on with school integration. Recent events make this highly doubtful. Writing in the New Republic, Yale Professor Alexander Bickel argues that, for whatever reason, whites consistently leave schools as they become highly integrated, and the result is resegregation. Integration, he contends, "creates as many problems as it purports to solve, and no one can be sure that, even if accomplished, it would yield an educational return." In his view, it may prove more effective to improve black schools than to move students...
...Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel...
...only to slow legal innovation. It is far from certain that Nixon, even if he tried, could swing the court in the direction he wanted. Justices often disappoint Presidents. "You shoot an arrow into a far-distant future when you appoint a Justice," says Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel. "And not the man himself can tell you what he will think about some of the problems that he will face...
Gaston, is played engagingly by Ross Bickel and minces and shuffles as a nervous adolescent nincompoop. The other actors are competent as is to be expected but none of them is memorable...
...fortune to remain active as long as Warren has? he is 77? there will still be a Fortas court in 1987. If he lasts as long as Mr. Justice Holmes, who retired at 90, there will be a Fortas court in 2000. "The court is like the country," says Bickel, "with new forces and new constituencies regrouping. We have a whole set of new problems with very different social, economic, and political trends running than we had at the beginning of the Warren court...