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UNWILLING TO WAIT even for the arrival of their new conservative brethren, the men and woman of the U.S. Senate, under the inspiring direction of Strom Thurmond, last week launched a vigorous and vicious assault on racial justice and the United States Constitution...
Katz, a specialist on international and environmental law, said yesterday that he had no specific plans for his term on the ACSR. "I'm going to wait for the first organizational meeting to meet with my brethren and find out what's on their minds," he said...
...Kadhimain mosque, where posters of Ayatullah Khomeini once hung during religious festivals, there is little evidence of special security precautions. Strongman Saddam Hussein's government, dominated by Sunni Muslims, is apparently confident that the Iranians will not be able to spark uprisings among their Shi'ite Muslim brethren in Iraq, who make up more than half the population...
...world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth...
...near fistfight between Frankfurter and Chief Justice Fred Vinson in the court's conference room. He notes that Justice Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the court "simply because he was black," and quotes Marshall's contribution to the reverse discrimination debate: "You guys," Marshall tells his brethren, "have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it's our turn...