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...year or two. The sources not only supplied the authors with blow-by-blow descriptions of the court's in camera deliberations during the first seven years (1969-76) of Burger's tenure but also made available a number of confidential court documents. The result is The Brethren, a book that ventures into the Justices' chambers and sets forth their feuds, their jockeying, their horse trading and their personal quirks in relentless and sometimes startling detail...
...height of the Agnew scandal in 1973, Baseball Buff Stewart had his clerks slip him play-by-play bulletins on the National League playoffs between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets as he sat on the bench. One note read: "Kranepool flies to right. Agnew resigns." The Brethren also reports some tantalizing What Ifs. The court came within a vote of, in effect, judicially establishing the Equal Rights Amendment: Stewart held back only because he believed that state legislatures would pass the ERA. Muhammad Ali would have gone to jail as a draft resister had a clerk...
Survivors--the title cut--is the last song on the album. Marley calls his black brethren the survivors of centuries of hard living, urging them to continue the struggle; to continue to survive "in this age of scientific atrocity and atomic misphilosophy...
Hear me, my brethren pizza lovers. Take up your napkins and fight the establishment. Write your congressman; write Jimmy Carter; write Ann Landers; you can even write Kingman Brewster if he'll listen. Chant Attica. Take 'za as your mantra. Strike, strike, strike...
...several of the Justices, dozens of their law clerks, and scholars across the land. One finding: after ten years at the helm of the nation 's highest tribunal, Burger has yet to demonstrate the intellectual or personal persuasion necessary to make him a leader among his highly individualistic brethren. Another: faced with a never-ending array of increasingly complex issues, the court itself is splintered and groping; its decisions often seem inconsistent...