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Far more important, the Bitburg episode cut deep into the veneer of postwar friendships. Commented Rome's La Repubblica: "The effect has been diametrically opposite to what Reagan and also Kohl had anticipated, leading to the resurgence of old tensions." Up to a point, however, such dredgings can serve as...
Nonetheless, one of the major advantages for the professors in the Experimental Section--Michelman, Rakoff, Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz Frankfurter Professor of Constitutional and Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson--is that they "get to work more closely with colleagues," says Rakoff."
In principle, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court do not write laws, they merely apply them. They "breathe life, feeble or strong, into the inert pages of the Constitution and of statute books," wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter.
Strong-willed jurists, pent up together for decades, inevitably feud. Earlier courts were riven by fierce ego and philosophical clashes, like the long-running one between William Douglas, an unabashed activist, and Felix Frankfurter, apostle of "judicial restraint." By comparison, the Burger Court is a pretty tame place. "This court...
Still hopeful, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher emphasized that the Honecker visit was "meaningful and necessary." But pessimism increased when the usually well-informed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that Honecker would "probably" put off his trip until the end of the year, allowing him time to consult with...