Word: clashes
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This was not mere celebrity dish; this was rancid food for thought. The clash raised troubling questions for every nouveau Brady Bunch family, every jerry-built alliance of siblings who are more like classmates and parents who may be only lovers. What is incest? How affectionate can a man be to those in his care? What is a father? How much distance must he put between himself and his unofficial children before he is free to date one of them...
...there are good reasons why the legislature and not the courts should set the national policy on abortion. Abortion is, as Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence Tribe put, it,. a "clash of absolutes." In previous eras, the conflict between two valid and irreconcilable principles was recognized as part of human political life and called tragedy. Nowadays, we act as if every problem had a solution. But appeals to abstract principle, such as the Court uses in its decisions are not they way to resolve a tragic conflict, whose very force derives from the army of principles arrayed on both...
Most Saddam watchers believe that he does not want to risk a suicidal death grip with Bush. Saddam's leadership since Desert Storm has been a case study in guile, ruthlessness and careful timing. The clash over the Agriculture Ministry is the fifth time the allies have had to cock their guns to ensure compliance with U.N. sanctions; each time in the past Saddam backed down. "He is trying to nickel-and-dime us until he can erode the sanctions and regain his sovereignty," says Phebe Marr of the National Defense University in Washington...
...violent boast. Flip to the classic-rock station, and you might catch the Rolling Stones announcing "the time is right for violent revo-loo-shun!" from their 1968 hit Street Fighting Man. And where were the defenders of our law- ( enforcement officers when a white British group, the Clash, taunted its fans with the lyrics: "When they kick open your front door/ How you gonna come/ With your hands on your head/ Or on the trigger of your...
...writing the court's opinions. Kennedy and Souter both have clerks who were once students and proteges of Laurence Tribe, the Harvard law professor who is public enemy No. 1 to legal conservatives. Peter Rubin, a Souter clerk, helped research Tribe's strongly pro-choice 1990 book, Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes. Michael C. Dorf, who clerked for Kennedy, is co-author with Tribe of a new book, On Reading the Constitution...