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...never thought of him as an ideologue,” Lindsay A. Connor, who was also on Law Review with Roberts, wrote in an e-mail. But Connor said that he has not seen Roberts in more than 25 years and does not know how Roberts has changed...
...Bowles, once chief of staff under President Bill Clinton), Bowles understood that to remain competitive, Springs had to restructure, cut domestic production and run a more efficient operation. First she took the company private again, in September 2001, for $1.2 billion. The family is the majority shareholder. Tom O'Connor, executive vice president, says going private gave Springs the flexibility it needed to address the tough reality facing the industry. "We also recognized early on where trade laws were going--that this is going to be a quota-free world--and said, Let's get our ducks...
...future generations of all Americans whose lives are so deeply affected by decisions of the court. Rather, I pledged to appoint a woman who meets the very high standards I demand of all court appointees."... To be sure, Reagan's announcement that he intended to elevate [Sandra Day] O'Connor to the highest U.S. Government post ever held by a woman had its roots in partisan politics. Mainly because he had been portrayed by Jimmy Carter as a man who might blunder the nation into war, Reagan had lacked strong support among women in last year's campaign. --TIME, July...
Over the past decade, parental-notification rules, mandatory waiting periods and other state restrictions have steadily chipped away at a woman's right to abortion. With Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement, it would probably take only the departure of one of the court's four remaining moderate-to-liberal members--most likely John Paul Stevens, 85, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 72--to overturn Roe v. Wade, which established abortion rights nationwide, or the court's more recent precedent, 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The more pressing matter of late-term-abortion bans is sure...
...battlefield may have seemed quiet of late, but the war over affirmative action isn't necessarily over. O'Connor cast the decisive vote in the landmark 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy of taking race into account on a case-by-case basis. In a separate ruling concerning Michigan undergraduate admissions, the court said rigid race quotas or formulas were unconstitutional. Any number of groups could potentially spark a new challenge. Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state...