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Equally important, in the furious view of the losing Democrats, Reagan had taken a serious stride toward that old congressional bugaboo, the "Imperial Presidency." Reagan raised that fear by getting the House to substitute budget proposals drafted by Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman for those worked out by its own committees. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill after the vote: "I've never seen anything like this. Does this mean that any time the President is interested in a piece of legislation, he merely sends it over?" Last week at least, the answer seemed...
Meanwhile, the killer sits alone in his cell at Rikers Island, reading and watching TV. The only other inmate in the 13-cell maximum-security row is Craig Crimmins, 22, convicted of murdering a violinist at the Metropolitan Opera House. The two no longer speak; Chapman is still furious that Crimmins called him a "nut case" last month...
Like many undergraduates, Hamlin will also remember the more trivial protests he was involved in. One morning at breakfast, he recalls, a cockroach crawled out from under his scrambled eggs. He was furious, and he asked to speak to the dining ball manager "but I never raised my voice or swore. I know how to do that sort of thing...
...hates baseball because of his daughter. He grew up in Greece where they didn't have any baseball, and I used to cry after games and kick in t.v. sets," Photo admits. Her father was furious when he found out during freshman parents' weekend that every paper Photo had written at Harvard was on baseball...
...dogs. In Frankfurter's first year on the court, Black and Douglas went along with a Frankfurter opinion that allowed public schools to require a morning "flag salute," even if salutations violated the religious principles of some schoolchildren. But four years later, they reversed their decision. Frankfurter was furious. "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution," he began his emotional dissent. Even so, Frankfurter scolded, a Justice's "duty" is to submerge his personal views while passing judgment. But fellow...