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...Last year TIME cited the Chief Justice's grim prediction in a cover story about "Those #@!!! Lawyers." The cover this week examines the second object of Burger's concern, His Honor's increasingly powerful colleagues on the bench. To assess the rapid expansion of judicial authority in the U.S. and the delays, anachronisms and inefficiencies that plague the nation's courts, TIME correspondents interviewed dozens of lawyers and judges across the country, including the studiously reclusive Chief Justice himself. Reports Washington Correspondent Doug Brew: "Chatting with Burger in a quiet corner of his office while...
Staff Writer Evan Thomas, who wrote this week's cover story and helped report last year's on lawyers, had his first, rather bizarre encounter with a judge in 1975. As a reporter for the Bergen County, N.J., Record, he was interviewing a group of teen-agers after a gang fight in Little Ferry, N.J., when he was arrested on the highly original charge of "inciting to loiter...
...court thinks there is anything noble about the press.' " Ignoring that wisdom, Thomas came to TIME shortly after receiving his J.D. in 1977, joining Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington bureau to cover what Correspondent Brew calls "the most underreported branch of Government - the Judiciary." Says former Defendant Thomas of his new assignment: "The subject is not exactly unfamiliar...
...might assume from the cover illustration that Americans have one manner of dress, one national origin, one race and one gender...
Total strangers wandered through the dorm, madly introducing themselves, in search of instant friends. The nauseatingly sweet smell of incense (burned to cover the odor of dope) and the stench of old beer permeated the dorm. Music blared from every corner of the Yard, while huge groups of drunken men huddled and leered at women going from party to party. I got asked the big four questions--name, school, career plans, SAT scores--so often I could recite them in seconds (although I refused, as a matter of principle, to talk scores). After one night of parties...