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...founder and chairman of First Jersey Securities, Robert Brennan appeared in TV commercials, hopping out of his helicopter and imploring viewers to "come grow with us." Apparently, the message got through. Since 1980 his firm has increased its number of clients from 200,000 to 500,000. But Brennan revealed last week that he will resign as chairman and look for new growth opportunities elsewhere...
...Brennan, 42, who will remain on First Jersey's board of directors, will now devote more time to running a philanthropic organization that he established. A flamboyant millionaire who breeds Thoroughbred horses, he will also oversee a racetrack management firm that he helped take public in 1981. He says he may eventually run for political office...
...example, could James Madison have foreseen a wiretap? Therefore its precise phrases, and the possible intent by which they were formed in a world dead and gone, carry far less weight than the flow of legal history and the accumulated power of precedent. Says Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: "The ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time?" John Marshall, as usual, may have put it best. "We must never forget," he wrote in McCulloch, "that this is a constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently...
...first time ever, that federal judges may set goals and timetables requiring employers guilty of past discrimination to hire or promote specific numbers of minorities, even if the jobs go to people who are not themselves the proven victims of bias. The rulings, written by Justice William Brennan, add up to a strong endorsement of affirmative action...
Harry Blackmun's passionate dissent (joined by William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens) asserted that "only the most willful - blindness could obscure" the connection between sexuality and the right to privacy. "No matter how uncomfortable a certain group may make the majority of this court," wrote Blackmun, that does not justify denying homosexuals the right to privacy. As for constitutional authority, the dissenters relied on the due-process clause and the Fourth Amendment's guarantee of "the right of the people to be secure in their persons (and) houses." Wrote Blackmun: "The right of an individual to conduct...