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...guidelines that require special expertise," says Stanford's Gerald Gunther. "But if Johnson is criticized for becoming an administrator, it is the lesson he was taught by a recalcitrant Governor Wallace in the school segregation cases." Where there is political reluctance to act, adds Yale's Thomas Emerson, "the court is the conscience of the community, enforcing its ideals." Prisons, in Alabama as elsewhere, have long been ignored by politicians, and judges have traditionally followed a hands-off policy. But now "we are emerging from that period," says Boston College Law Professor Sanford Fox, "and we are emerging...
...sudden retirement last week. In his later years, some critics came to view Douglas as a dangerous radical. Yet Douglas did not see the court as a tool for radical social change, "but rather as a mechanism to keep open the democratic process," says Yale Law Professor Thomas I. Emerson. To this end his decisions supported free speech, the broadest possible interpretation of individual constitutional rights and, less often noted, far-reaching Government power to regulate the economy...
...There is properly no history," wrote Emerson, "only biography." To reconstruct the New Mexican frontier of the 1860s, Horgan concentrates on Lamy. In the novel, the bishop experienced a constant inner joy: "He always awoke a young man ... One could breathe that [air] only on the bright edges of the world, on the great grass plains or the sagebrush desert." Horgan testifies to Lamy's love of Western saddle life, but concedes a sadder truth: "If he had any capacity to express exalted feeling, he left no record...
Brown's Steve Ralbovsky opened the scoring with a goal on a corner kick at 41:54 of the first half. Cornell rebounded to knot the score on Dave Emerson's head shot with one second left in the half...
Dick Netzer, a member of board of directors of MAC, and dean of New York University's graduate school of public administration, told a standing-room only audience in Emerson Hall that failure to provide such a loan guarantee "would convert state and municipal bonds into assets with a real degree of risk," causing many "risk-averters" to leave the bond market, depressing bond sales...