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...says there are attempts at persuasion in conference and when opinions circulate internally before being issued; they arrive as comments on the draft opinions of others. "There is very little face-to-face or buttonholing in the hallway," he says. "It is done by letter. So it will be 'Dear Clarence, I don't agree with this point or that point.'" Justice Byron White never failed to sign off with "Cheers, Byron," according to Thomas...
...court from public policy than in a right-wing revolution. Unless the Roberts court umpires another disputed presidential election (à la Bush v. Gore in 2000--a long shot, to say the least), the left-right division will matter mainly in the realm of theories and rhetoric, dear to the hearts of law professors and political activists but remote from day-to-day existence. What once was salient is now mostly symbolic...
...Chinese trading company Tianjin Digital invested $650,000 to open a joint-venture bicycle plant in Pyongyang. "The conditions are really favorable," says Tianjin manager Liang Tongjun, whose company was granted a 20-year monopoly on bicycle manufacturing in the North. A month after the factory opened, the Dear Leader himself paid a visit...
...This week's summit had all the ingredients of compelling agitprop: martial pageantry, a red-carpet welcome for Roh, flower-waving crowds, and even a cameo by the reclusive Dear Leader, who, despite looking unsteady and in poor health, nevertheless emerged to play host. But stagecraft doesn't equal statecraft. For now, the dream of a North Korean perestroika remains just that. Roh may have taken a symbolic step toward reunification - but the road ahead is long and far from smooth...
...feeling in Seoul is that Roh got very little in return for his efforts and walked away with a fuzzy agreement. And Kim, meanwhile, certainly didn't win any good will with the South Korean public either. The Dear Leader failed to attend two official dinners held for the South Korean delegation even after Roh's pledge to attend the controversial Airang Games, a massive synchronized gymnastic performance often used as a propaganda tool that glorifies the regime. Kim also appeared - to put it charitably - a little distant in Roh's company, a stark contrast to the first summit seven...