Word: byronic
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With the imminent retirement of Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, a group of extremists on both sides of the increasingly hostile abortion battle and those in a number of other visceral debates are preparing to commit a crime just as heinous--the murder of the federal judicial selection process...
Simultaneously, Clinton got a stroke of luck when Supreme Court Justice Byron White, 75, on Friday announced that he will retire after the court's current term ends in early summer. White had not been one of the more memorable justices, but he had provided a swing vote that pushed the court in a conservative direction on such issues as abortion and church-state relations. His retirement will give Clinton an opportunity to appoint a Justice (New York Governor Mario Cuomo? Legal scholar Laurence Tribe?) who might help turn the court in a far more liberal direction. And the President...
LONG BEFORE TODAY'S POWERFUL PHALANX OF REpublican-nominated Justices began to dominate the U.S. Supreme Court and push it sharply to the right, Justice Byron White voted to nudge it in that general direction. Last Friday, after 31 years on the high bench, the moderate-to-conservative Kennedy appointee -- a legal ace, Rhodes scholar and former star football player -- announced that he would step down at the end of the court's current term this summer...
...four bills are currently not being considered by the committee, as they would affect only Cambridge, said Rep. Byron Rushing, the chair of the committee...
...specializes in weird dislocations of scale; his 45-ft.-long red toy fire truck parked outside the museum is an arresting street presence, while his naked nuclear family inside -- father, mother, daughter and son, all exactly the same size -- is distinctly spooky in a way that derives from Magritte. Byron Kim's Belly Paintings, 1992, representing six different hues of skin, each a gracefully swollen sac of solid color, are beautiful metaphors of the human body...