Word: connore
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During the nearly five years since she took her place on the high bench, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has provided a reasonably dependable third vote for the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. In a number of crucial cases, however, O'Connor has begun to split from her usual allies, Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, and has sometimes cast the decisive vote that yields a liberal result. Says Michael McDonald, general counsel of the conservative American Legal Foundation: "I wonder if she is traveling the route blazed by Justice Blackmun." Harry Blackmun, who moved from a close...
...intriguing example of O'Connor's independence came last week. Normally a strong supporter of police and prosecutors, she joined in a pair of significant rulings that strengthened the rights of black defendants (see box). One week earlier she astonished some court watchers by writing the majority opinion in a 5-to-4 libel decision requiring that in cases involving public concerns, private individuals must prove that damaging press assertions about them are false...
Chet Osadchey, Cornell's fourth pitcher of the game, replaced John O'Connor and struck out Vallone to force the 6-6 game into the eighth frame...
...Paul O'Connor and Deb Dubin placed sixth in the A division with 58 points for the Crimson. Sailing in the B divison, Harvard's Jim Rothwell and Katrina Yamin finished in ninth place with 80 points...
...house's Connor: "We've failed in our public duty. We should sound the alarm when a company is on the brink of disaster." Besides, he adds, "the courts are holding us responsible whether we like...