Word: byron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the title of her 14th book, The Weaker Vessel, the irony in her own life is apparent. She comes from a long literary tradition. Her mother, Elizabeth, has written biographies of Queen Victoria, Wellington, Byron and Elizabeth II. Her father, Frank Pakenham, was an Oxford don and inherited his title, the Earl of Longford. Fraser's siblings are novelists and poets...
Noting that the Justices have always objected to being called secretive, Thomas remembers, "One of them, Byron White, once told me, 'We're the only branch of Government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision...
...Courtly and white-maned, almost regal in appearance, he seems more comfortable with his ceremonial and administrative duties than at deciding cases. At the court's weekly conferences, he sometimes strikes other Justices as ill prepared and indecisive. When Burger changed his vote repeatedly in one case, Justice Byron White reportedly threw down his pencil and declared, "Jesus Christ, here we go again...
...glitter-king image in order to bask in "the serious moonlight." But Bowie has more disguises than a chameleon, and in his new 20-minute video for the song Blue Jean, from his soon-to-be-released album Tonight, Bowie assumes two roles. Sometimes he is Lord Byron, sometimes he is a sign painter named Vic, vainly trying to convince his girlfriend that he and the randy aristocrat are buddies. Seems like old times, but the period is mid-20th century. "Blue Jean is a '50s-style short," explains Bowie. "This is where videos are going...
...method by which the six justices in the majority decided their position--cost benefit analysis. In effect, the justices subjected indivisible individual rights to a social calculus, whereby they measured whether the gain from convicting more criminals outweighed the relative loss of an individual's right to privacy. Justice Byron White was quite explicit on this point: "Because we find that the [exclusionary] rule can have no substantial deterrent effect in the sorts of situations under consideration in this case, we conclude that it cannot pay its way in those situations...