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Former Justice William J. Brennan wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece that the state performs no good service to the victim of a crime by "emulating his murderer." Well, perhaps not. But I do not believe that retribution--in the case of capital crimes, a sense of individual and communal vengeance--is a vice. I will feel no remorse when I hear the bell toll for John Royster...
...doesn't even have a formal title. And on the Supreme Court, it has been decades since the titular chief was the real power center. During the 1970s and early '80s, the years of Chief Justice Warren Burger, the court's magnetic field emanated from the direction of William Brennan, who figured out how to attract a majority of Justices to rulings that protected the liberal jurisprudence of the Earl Warren years from the conservative appointees bunching on his right...
...Brennan succeeded by refining ideas. Those are the real coin of influence. The ones that rank as influential tend to be simple to grasp, endless in their implications, challenging to accomplish but still within the realm of possibility (for instance: Love thy neighbor). Perhaps one of the most influential men in American politics is the late Leo Strauss, the German emigre political philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s. His distrust of moral relativism, his deep skepticism about the benefits of the Enlightenment and his concern that the unchecked authority of reason would sabotage...
Much depends on the credibility and good faith of the people doing the resurrecting. In the case of the new Selena CD, her brother worked with Nancy Brennan, a vice president at EMI, in picking every song on the album and in selecting the producers who helped to complete them. "[Selena's] family members were her best friends," says Brennan. "Your legacy is much more protected when your family is in charge...
...that were already hits in the Latin market. Some of the best new tracks--the spirited mariachi song Tu Solo Tu and a soulfully giddy duet with David Byrne called God's Child--were recorded for, then dropped from, the sound track for the movie Don Juan DeMarco. Says Brennan: "I bet the producers of that movie regret that...