Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took was giving up movies and cigarettes for a week. But as in baseball, where he passionately rooted for the hapless Chicago Cubs along with his hometown Minnesota Twins, he came to defend the underdogs in life: blacks, women, gays, aliens, Native Americans. By 1977, in a dissent from the majority's denial of funds for Medicaid abortions, he was aware of " 'another world' out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize." Just two months ago, he came to the defense of life's greatest losers when he pronounced that...
...replace him. Not long after the start of the court's present term in October, Blackmun confided to the President that it would probably be his last. For those who did not get advance word, the imminent departure of the 85-year-old Justice was predictable from his passionate dissent on a death-penalty case in February. When he declared his categorical opposition to "the machinery of death," it was in the valedictory tone of a man writing with one eye on history and one foot out the door...
...Hance execution comes in the midst of growing scrutiny of the death penalty. A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote an impassioned dissent in which he concluded that "the death-penalty experiment has failed." By contrast, Justice Antonin Scalia, a supporter of capital punishment who is fed up with last-minute appeals before the court, last week chastised a defense lawyer for waiting too long to seek a federal stay for a Texas execution. That outburst came during arguments for a case involving a federal court's right to intervene in a state execution. Tempers may grow even...
...when you hear that bass drum ... it creates a melatonin increase surge, causing it to be released in the body, induces the opiate system -- the endorphin and enkephalin system -- and gives you a sense of well-being." From the audience, Skolnick says, "there was not a single murmur of dissent...
...Globe reported that McMullin had created dissent at the review which has, in turn, triggered an exodus of staff members. The Globe said McMullin's $500,000 salary and her decision to hire high-priced talent to expand HBSP's publishing operations had rankled some staff members...