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Throughout his short but illustrious career, Judge Douglas Ginsburg has shown a knack for staying above the fray. As a professor at Harvard Law School from 1975 to 1983, a time when ferocious political debate polarized the faculty, he made no enemies in either the liberal or the conservative camp. At the White House Office of Management and Budget in 1984 and 1985, Ginsburg grappled with an array of aggressive interest groups and lobbyists over environmental regulations and rules concerning safety in the workplace; yet he won high marks from both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill for his adept...
...summer employer were unremarkably observant. "My God," he cried, "you're English." This, alas, is all too true. It is also something of a novelty in the British Houses of Parliament, where the lobbies echo with the sound of eager young Americans panting for the fray. Far from being the club-like sanctum it popularly is supposed to be, the British Parliament rapidly is becoming a summer camp for hordes of keen foreigners...
...case, Biden's campaign does appear seriously wounded by the latest outbreak of the New Politics of Rectitude. Biden vowed that his campaign will continue, but barring some cleansing act of valor, he may be doomed to limp along until the chance comes to withdraw honorably from the fray. In the end, Biden may be remembered as the candidate who truly offered the voters an echo and not a choice...
Antitrust. Bork has had formidable influence in the field of antitrust, his legal specialty. His view that Congress, which entered the fray with the 1890 Sherman Act, intended to prohibit only those mergers that discourage "economic efficiency" has many followers in the antitrust division of the Reagan Justice Department. Bork finds fault with most of the subsequent attempts by Congress to define anticompetitive practices and to interfere with vertical mergers. Deferential to legislatures in most constitutional disputes, Bork becomes positively Swiftian in his gloom about their capabilities in the economic field: "Congress as a whole is institutionally incapable...
Hart endured this televised tribunal for one simple reason: he felt he had no choice. True, he denied the rumors that he was contemplating re-entering the presidential fray. But Hart is clearly a man tormented as he thrashes about for a suitable public role. "What I've realized in the last three months," he said, "is that I can't waste ((my)) talents, and I've got to figure out a way to contribute...