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Power-hungry Gov jocks, take advantage of this unique opportunity. You too can learn how easy it is, with CIA support, to plunder a country, crush political dissent and still be respected enough to be invited to give a speech on the nobility of peace to the adoring students of a prestigious university...
...authority rather than submits uncritically to the physician's will and whims. Yet that approach rubs raw against a basic instinct. Patients want to trust their doctors, to view them as benign and authoritative. Even those who privately question a doctor's decisions may be loath to express dissent. Doctors admit that an aggressive or challenging patient can be very irritating. "When you can, under certain circumstances, play God, you sometimes tend to behave like you are God," says Cornell's David Rogers. "The enormous satisfaction of being able to help a lot of people makes you impatient with those...
...week's decision. The creche and menorah case, County of Allegheny v. A.C.L.U., saw the emergence of an outspoken bloc of four conservative Justices, just one vote shy of a majority, who are openly intent on challenging long-established views on the separation between church and state. The creche dissent in the Allegheny decision brought together Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Byron White and Chief Justice William Rehnquist, all of whom favor a sweeping reinterpretation of what the Bill of Rights means by forbidding government "establishment of religion...
...conservative dissent, which would have allowed the creche, was written by Kennedy, 52, the court's newest member. Kennedy contended that the majority ruling by Harry Blackmun, and in effect a whole train of Supreme Court decisions, "reflects an unjustified hostility toward religion." In his opinion, Kennedy proposed that the court apply two new tests to determine the constitutionality of links between the government and religion. First, Kennedy wrote, "government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in any religion or its exercise." Second, the court should outlaw only those "direct benefits" that tend to create a state religion...
...fear for the liberty and equality of the millions of women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided," Justice Harry Blackmun proclaimed in his dissent. "For today, the women of this nation will retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows...