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...Freestyle--1. Brennan (P) 11:27.30; 2. Ewing...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Aquamen Sink Penn | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...yard breaststroke: 1.Chris Hotarek (BC), 33.02; 2. Karen Chen (H), 33.07; 3. Colleen Brennan (BC), 33.55; 4. Terri Sullivan (BU), 33.75; 5.Laura Keiso (NU), 34.24; 6. Brenda Kay (Tufts...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Aquawomen Swamp Terriers, Grab First GBC Crown Ever | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

...been a hodge-podge of fairly feeble arguments--from "utterly without redeeming social value" to the more recent "community standards" test--it is obvious that pornography has always been what the individual Supreme Court justices decide it is. It is little more than embarassing, then, to reveal that Justice Brennan cast his vote using the "limp dick standard" or that "for White, no erections and no insertions equaled no obscenity." The Post's crosstown rival, The Washington Star, has long boasted of its breathless gossip column, The Ear. Woodward and Armstrong supply some strong hardbound competition in parts of their...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Justice on Parade | 1/3/1980 | See Source »

...sheet instead of the document. Justice William Douglas tried to exert influence even after he retired. He attempted to file a dissent in a campaign finance case and asked to have a tenth chair brought into the courtroom when the court heard oral arguments on the death penalty. Brennan, his old liberal ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keyholing the Supreme Court | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...school grading standards, but the incident showed that the court has internal checks and balances. Lobbying by outsiders is shown to be futile. When the Washington lawyer and Franklin Roosevelt brain-truster Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran visited his old friend Black and acquaintance Brennan to get a controversial antitrust decision reheard, or when New York Times Editor James ("Scotty") Reston telephoned Burger to talk about the Pentagon papers case, they were quickly rebuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keyholing the Supreme Court | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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