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...perfectly clear that Ginsburg should never have had to answer questions about what he smoked and when. True, drugs are illegal, and it can be argued that drug use as a law professor reveals a basic contempt for law. But many, many activities and forms of behavior that take place in private are technically illegal, and if a nominee can be forced to disclose whether he has ever gotten high, there is no limit to how far his privacy can be invaded...
...discomfort with any substantive discussion, save for his mantra-like promises to provide "strong leadership." The danger is that Bush and Dole, in swatting away the far more ideological underdogs, will each be viewed as fitting the description from Henry Adams' 1880 novel, Democracy: "He had . . . a statesmanlike contempt for philosophical politics. He loved power, and he meant to be President. That was enough...
...thing. On Wednesday, Reagan remarked that the midweek rally indicated the Monday collapse had been "some kind of a correction" -- a statement that would have been reassuring only if he had intended it ironically, as he obviously had not. Some critics began speaking of the President in tones of contempt. Said a Wall Street money manager during the midst of the crash: "You sell and get what you can and never again listen to Ronald Reagan." M.I.T. Professor Robert Solow, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics last week, took the occasion to criticize Reagan's long, obstinate resistance...
...plutocratic owners. Having won their victory over the players, the owners showed contempt for both their employees and customers by refusing to allow striking players to return to the field this weekend and were content to subject the fans to one more weekend of pseudo-football...
When she returned without the child, she was imprisoned for contempt of court because she refused to disclose her daughter's hiding place. She was freed last week after Nicole was found in Durham...