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...White House, the New Right began remaking the G.O.P. in its own image. In 1960 Goldwater published The Conscience of a Conservative, an outline of his beliefs and his game plan for victory that eventually sold 3.5 million copies. For Buchanan, who read it as a student at Georgetown University, it was "our New Testament." Immediately after the election, activist F. Clifton White organized a meeting of 32 businessmen, lawyers, oilmen and bankers as the nucleus of a drive to nominate a conservative, preferably Goldwater...
Along with his philosophy of judicial restraint, Scalia boasts a resume bursting with brilliance (valedictorian at Georgetown, a Law Review editor at Harvard, esteemed law professor at the University of Chicago) and a reputation for gregariousness and charm. So in 1986 the Reagan Administration believed that the 50-year-old circuit court of appeals judge was the perfect candidate to lead a new conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone...
Such insulting language has become Scalia's signature style. It does not win friends or influence jurists--except perhaps to move them off the fence into alignment against him. Georgetown University law professor Mark Tushnet, who has studied the personal papers of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, says Scalia "annoyed everybody at one time or another...They'd get over it and say, 'That's just how Nino is,' and then he'd do something else. It has to have left some residue of unwillingness to accommodate...
That summer, Capello left LSU and Southern and moved in with his sister, who was then a senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In Washington, Capello held down three jobs: as a bass teacher in a music store, as a waiter in a local restaurant, and as a free-lance bassist playing two to three gigs a week. Simultaneously, he enrolled in Georgetown and George Washington Universities, where he took college courses in Italian, physics, aesthetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. And he earned straight...