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...entirely competent, a nominee of potentially great distinction," said Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz termed O'Connor "smart, fair, self-confident and altogether at home with technical legal issues." Michigan Law's Yale Kamisar, a judicial liberal, said of Reagan: "Give the devil his due; it was a pretty good appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...Faustus. Tempted by the devil, the doctor, a chiropractor, finds that temptation rubs him the wrong way and so gives the devil a quick brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: There Must Be a Nicer Way | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...believe that the plot is convoluted, savor this: Air Force One is hijacked by the National Liberation Front for America and crashes into Manhattan Island, which is now a penal colony, a sort of Devil's Island-on-the-Hudson. The President (Donald Pleasance) survives the crash only to be taken hostage by the prisoners. From their headquarters on Liberty Island (home of the Statue of...), the police hire an ex-military hero turned crook. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to rescue the leader of the free world. He has 24 hours to make the rescue, because the Leader...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Take the A Train | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...expected to survive redistricting. Republicans in their states want to dilute the strength of black votes for Democrats by concentrating blacks in a single, overwhelmingly Democratic district. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle of this new alliance between Republicans and blacks: "It's kind of like the devil converting to Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Man, One Vote, One Mess | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...want to change 400 years of mistakes overnight. You're lucky if you can make changes here in 80 years." The last word about salvation and social justice may go, however, to Father Peter Halligan, a former policeman now working in Lima: "We know stark poverty is the devil's best ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Beleaguered Maryknollers | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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