Word: core
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...Still, we're really excited about the returning group," Kingston added. "Eighteen of the top 24 players from last year return and that gives us a good core of experience. This could be a very good year...
...heart of the drama is the relationship of two people who had no physical contact for 22 years and were long limited to the rare letter and visit. Together, Woodard, with her serene face and molten core, and Glover, an actor of towering force and compassion, transcend an otherwise ordinary hagiography. As a young bride, Winnie draws her strength from Nelson's huge, healing hands cupped around her face. When she visits him in prison, Winnie, wearing native dress, brings to him the exalted dignity that she has painfully won. Surrounded by guards, separated by plate glass, they are only...
...revelation eventually resulted in Bork's famous 1971 Indiana Law Journal article repudiating his prior attempts to find unwritten protections in the Constitution. In its place was Bork's version of what academics call interpretivism, or intentionalism. Unless the Constitution clearly specifies the protection of a core value, Bork wrote, "there is no principled way to prefer any claimed human value to any other." Only the "original intent" of the Constitution's framers should be used by judges in finding constitutionally protected values, he declared...
...precise (and sometimes imprecise) language of the Constitution cannot always be treated as the last word on its meaning. New conditions arise that may require the application of constitutional principles in ways the framers did not foresee. But he insists that the role of judges is to identify the "core values" that are contained in the text and history of specific constitutional provisions, and then to apply these as present-day situations warrant...
...equal protection under the law to "any person," allowing the court to invoke it to cover women, aliens, illegitimate children and sometimes the poor. Bork defends the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case on the ground that the intent of the 14th Amendment contains the "core" idea of protecting blacks from government discrimination. But he finds no similar intent to protect women. That could exclude them, for example, from affirmative action programs...