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...there is little collegiality. "It's not like you walk into a room and four of them are laughing together about a baseball game," says a former law clerk for Brennan. "They walk to conference arm in arm, but during the week they don't pal around together." Justice Lewis Powell calls the Brethren "nine one-man law firms." Says Blackmun: "There is very little humor...
Says Steven Reiss of New York University Law School, a former clerk for Brennan: "Calling this the Burger Court is a complete misnomer. He is the least analytical and the least astute, and he has the least time for the substantive work of the court." Burger has irked some of his colleagues, who suspect that he has used his power to assign the written opinions of the court to reward his friends and punish his enemies...
...rights. Stevens bitterly accused his colleagues of violating "any civilized standard of decency." Such frankness has not won him friends among the Brethren Says a former Burger clerk: "The Justices may squabble among themselves, but they don't go telling the neighbors...
...nonunion, is just over $20,000 a year, less than half the norm at larger airlines. But every employee is a stockholder and works hard. A People Express customer-service manager is a Jack-(or Jill) of-all-trades whose duties include serving as check-in clerk and flight attendant, plus stints at tasks ranging from accounting to fuel management...
...last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia disallowed Reagan's pocket veto after hearing a suit brought by 33 House Democrats. Their argument: Congress had not adjourned, but was merely off on a break between sessions, and had designated the House clerk and the Senate secretary to receive any presidential missives. Unless the White House successfully appeals to the Supreme Court, the decision makes illegal, technically, the $64 million dispensed to El Salvador in military aid since Nov. 30 of last year...