Word: calvinism
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...this could be found than the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' repugnant Oct. 27 decision that the constitutional right to a lawyer is satisfied even if the court-appointed lawyer is asleep. The court rejected an appeal from the Texas courts in which the lawyer appointed to represent Calvin Burdine in a capital case had slept through a large portion of the trial. Although the facts were uncontested, and although other appeals courts have found that a sleeping lawyer is constitutionally equivalent to no lawyer at all, the 5th Circuit found that Burdine did not deserve a new trial...
...this reversal with a friend: "You know, if I want to go out," she reasoned, "I want to do my hair, wear tight clothes, be fabulous and dance my ass off. I don't want to be in a stuffy room without alcohol, with a bunch of girls in Calvin Klein talking about New York...
...suspicion, yet Reagan knew enough to remove the confiscatory tax rates and inflation that were squelching investment and entrepreneurship under Nixon, Carter and Gerald R. Ford. The big posthumous tax cuts proposed by John F. Kennedy '40 made the 1960s the first decade without recession. Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, both "do nothing" presidents not renowned for mental prowess, were the stewards of the great 1920s boom when GNP increased by more than half in under a decade. Coolidge simply repealed the war time tax rates and let the good times roll. And who guided America through the tripling...
...other hand, populist though you be, you don't entrust your life savings to a friendly guy named Bud whom you met this morning at the bus depot. You prefer men named Calvin who work in buildings with pillars...
Woodrow Wilson put sheep on the White House lawn to help with the home-front effort in World War I. In 1925, Calvin Coolidge was the first to try out radio, which Franklin Roosevelt then used so effectively in his fireside chats, broadcasting from the shadowy basement room arched with stone pillars right near the Map Room, where he and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill planned the grand strategy for World...