Word: brennans
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What are the mathematical odds that two brothers would head the archrival retailers Sears and Montgomery Ward? Put away the calculators; it will soon happen. In June, Bernard Brennan, 46, takes over as boss of Montgomery Ward, where he was once an executive vice president. His brother Edward, 51, has been chief operating officer of Sears since last August, and will succeed Chairman Edward Telling later this year...
...active schedule of public appearances and shows no sign that he is thinking about quitting. Court watchers have been noting for years that Thurgood Marshall, 76, is in poor physical shape, but he has remarked privately, "I was appointed for life and intend to serve out my term." William Brennan, who will be 79 in April, is the oldest of the Justices, but remains spry mentally and physically. Remarried in 1983, the Eisenhower appointee seems less limited by his years than his younger colleague William Rehnquist, 60, whose back problems send him home from the court many days...
...change the balance on the court decisively, Ronald Reagan would have to name a replacement for Liberals Brennan or Marshall or sometime Liberals Blackmun or John Paul Stevens, seemingly in his prime at 64. During the 1984 campaign, both sides noted that the winner probably would join a short list of very fortunate Presidents--Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Taft and 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...
Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
...outright all libel suits by public officials against critics of their performance. The full court went almost as far: it held that journalists should not be liable for the results of honest error about public matters, regardless of how false or injurious the report. Said Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion: "Raising as it does the possibility that a good-faith critic of government will be penalized for his criticism, the proposition relied on by the Alabama courts (that an attack on government performance is a personal attack on government officials) strikes at the very center of the constitutionally...