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RETIRING. MARGARET THATCHER, 76, Europe's first woman Prime Minister, who as Conservative leader of Britain earned the nickname "Iron Lady" for her battles against socialism and the labor unions; from the public lecture circuit; after suffering a series of small strokes; in London...
Last week, by killing Judge Charles Pickering’s nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Daschle and his sidekick, Judiciary Committee Chair Pat Leahy, proved themselves to be this nation’s most politically powerful adolescents. And as though indicating that such childishness would be rewarded in kind, Trent Lott announced his own plan to block the nomination of a former Daschle aide to the Federal Communications Commission...
...record not only refutes the charge of racism, but suggests he is an especially capable jurist. As Judiciary Committee member Orrin Hatch argued last Thursday, Pickering’s reversal rate is lower than both the national average and the average for district court judges in the Fifth Circuit. And, as Hatch noted, almost all of the matters on which Pickering was reversed were minor issues unrelated to the substance of the case (such as the precise determination of legal fees to be paid by a losing defendant to the plaintiff...
...pseudonym is John C.C. Doe in the civil suit filed Friday in the state circuit court of Hannibal, Mo., - the third filed so far against the now resigned Palm Beach bishop, Anthony O'Connell. Doe is 34 years old, and what he says happened to him starting 19 years ago, when he was a 15-year-old, "barely 5-feet-tall and 100 lbs," plunged him into a suicidal depression that has haunted his adulthood as well as what should have been the most carefree years of his life. It started in1982, when he entered the St. Thomas Aquinas preparatory...
President Bush nominated Judge Charles Pickering to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Pickering, Bush’s first abortion idealogue to come before the Judiciary Comittee, has a history of opposition to women’s rights: As a state senator, he voted for a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to ban abortion and voted against state funding for family planning programs. Pickering’s nomination was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but his nomination is an indication of the type of judge Bush may later attempt...