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...That shows she wasn't really interested onworking through the system," Liston said. "She'sinterpreting the constitution herself and thinkingthat's the authoritative view. It's a view, and itmay be correct...
...former governor of California, his court was notorious for not allowing the law to get in the way of good policy. The results of such political tampering are not always "bad." Brown vs. Board of Education is the most conspicuous example of a Warren-era decision that was "correct," even as it was based on flimsy legal argument. But despite its morally progressive (and sometimes praiseworthy) agenda, the Warren Court fancied itself a legislative body--and an omnipotent one in that it spoke directly in the name of the Constitution...
...capture the intricacies of Allende's novel. We lose all sense of "The House of the Spirits" as a Latin American epic. The movie was filmed in Denmark and Portugal, the characters speak English with a wide variety of accents. There is never a consensus as to the correct pronunciation of Spanish names and places, which are included (along with a handful of Hispanic actors) as one of the few reminders that "The House of the Spirits" is supposed to occur in Latin America...
...Mike, "Dan replied, "you're Jewish too." I realized that he was correct, and that, in fact, we had gone to the same Jewish summer camp in New Jersey. Memories of my past crises of faith came flooding back to me, such as the time Yasser Arafat crashed my Bar Mitzvah, and the time I tried to sue my parents to return my foreskin. So much for my epiphany. I had met the Other, and he was me. At least Ahab got to fight a whale...
...past century, the politically correct way to attach blame was to pin it on a vanished empire -- the Rome of the Caesars and its representative in Judea, Pontius Pilate. But a new, two-volume study by one of the Roman Catholic Church's most prominent experts on the Gospels dismisses that approach. "You can't just say there was no Jewish involvement in the death of Jesus," says Father Raymond E. Brown, author of The Death of the Messiah (Doubleday; 1,608 pages; $75), which re-examines this and dozens of other issues on the crucifixion. "Jesus...