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...rests on the proposition that men can use their power of reason to improve the structure of their lives. The Justices, armored with life tenure, are in the unique position, says Columbia Law Professor Tom Farer, of being able "to seek out and identify those values and assumptions which are most fundamental in the American culture." A sense of continuity is ever more precious in a world assaulted by change. That fact makes it more essential than ever that the principles embraced by the court be imbued with as much intelligence and wisdom as possible. Every successive failure...
Ultimately, the Cambodian version of this issue is less likely to reach the Supreme Court than to be settled politically between Congress and the President. Meantime, ironies abound. Liberals who long dismissed Congress as retrograde and favored "power to the President," as Columbia Law Professor Tom Farer puts it, are now defending congressional wisdom. Longtime advocates of pragmatic interpretation of the Constitution are now becoming staunch strict constructionists...
...their cars, take off on long surfing safaris to find just the right "beach break." Af Matunuck, R.I., one of New England's surfing Shangri-las, almost a third of the cars parked bumper to bumper along the oceanfront road sport out-of-state plates. Said one surf-farer, a Wethersfield, Conn., high school senior who is president of his town's surfing club: "We travel to a different place every weekend. Next week we'll probably go to East Orleans on Cape Cod" -135 miles away. Decked out in neoprene "wet suits," booties and mittens, diehards...
Second-year students are Nathan J. Cohen, George E. Cooper, Anthony A. D'Amato, Jr., Timothy D. Dyk, Peter Edelman, David Falk, Tom J. Farer, David H. Fleck, Daniel I. Halperin, Elise B. Heinz, Roland S. Homet, Jr., Jack S. Levin, Jere D. McGaffey, Bernard W. Nussbaum, and Robert M. O'Neil...
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life, Heart whole and soul free, The August Father gave...