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...attitude of the Bush team toward manual recounts - do them or don't do them, just get them in on time - occasionally tripped them up with seven judges who have been at least perusing the papers. (Justice Barbara Pariente, almost absurdly, even tried to nail Bush heavy-lifter Michael Carvin on Bush's Texas hand-count law.) At one point, in the middle of his "contest" argument, Carvin had to say whether the current hand counts would proceed beyond a Harris certification. "No" was not the answer this court was looking...
Known as "Carvin' Marvin" during his tenure as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Runyon will have his hands full trying to remold the way 750,000 employees handle (and sometimes mishandle) 540 million pieces of mail each day. When legislators set up the Postal Service as a government-sponsored corporation in 1971, they naively predicted an end to taxpayer subsidies. But the last time the service broke even was in 1982; the projected deficit for this year alone is $2 billion...
Runyon hopes to meet his target with incentives for early retirement, but some layoffs seem unavoidable. Even so, union leaders applauded the fact that Marvin started carvin' from...
That prospect inspired jubilation among right-wingers, who immediately began pressuring George Bush to fill the vacancy with a conservative. "This is a seminal event in the return of the rule of law," exulted Michael Carvin, a former Justice Department official who helped screen judicial candidates for Ronald Reagan. "If there is anyone who represents the Warren Court's judicial activism, it is Brennan. He is the intellectual leader on the left of the court. Some important cases will go the other way when he is replaced...
...about Washington - a practice his agents would dearly like to stop. Yet the ease with which an attack can take place was dramatically demonstrated to Reagan be fore last week's shooting. As then Candidate Reagan campaigned in Miami in November 1975, a college dropout named Michael Lance Carvin, 20, managed to break through the crowd and point a toy gun directly...