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...conservative Republicans, however, Gonzales is not even on the top10 list. They crave a Justice who is strict and outspoken on core conservative issues, namely abortion and affirmative action, and for them Gonzales is too much of a cipher, perhaps too moderate. "To Bush's core constituency," says Phyllis Schlafly, president of the conservative action group the Eagle Forum, "the appointment to the Supreme Court ranks as the No. 1 issue that they care about. Bush went through the campaign saying his favorite Justices were [Antonin] Scalia and [Clarence] Thomas. We are not going to put up with another [David...
When South Africa's President took power in 1989, Mandela saw him as a "cipher." But there was no mistaking the smiling de Klerk's worth when the two finally met the following year and de Klerk told the antiapartheid leader that after 27 years in jail, he would be released the next day. De Klerk poured two tumblers of whiskey, but Mandela only pretended to drink. "Such spirits," he said, "are too strong for me." No matter. His spirit was strong enough...
...hard to gauge what these dramatic developments portend, for despite scientists' best efforts, Antarctica--the highest, dryest, coldest continent on the planet--remains a climatological cipher. For example, while it is clear that the Antarctic Peninsula--a thin sliver of land that juts above the Antarctic Circle--has been rapidly warming, the vast empty spaces of East Antarctica, repository of the greatest ice sheet on earth, appear to be doing the opposite. "Here we have a continent that is so important to our future," says earth scientist Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago...
Perhaps The Court wanted to ask Day more questions about Dreyfus after Greenough received a May 27 letter from George Wilcox using the strange cipher. He enclosed a photograph of Dreyfus that he found and described him as “slightly more tall than I perhaps 5’9’’ or 10’’. He has a thin black moustache. He probably weighs about 140 lb.” He added: “I have lately found a letter written by Piper [Courtney] to Potter [Cyril Wilcox] in which...
...midst of The Court’s investigation, Greenough received another letter from George Wilcox, dated May 31, using the same cipher. “Mr. Cummings has called this evening here at the house,” he wrote. “I went to talk with him. He says that he personally is alright but that Roberts is not a ‘moral man’ and is addicted to the same practices that Parker [Dreyfus] is.” Wilcox implied that he beat up Cummings as he previously had Dreyfus: “The interview...