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...occupied. Despite ambitious construction programs under way in some states ($1.2 billion for 19,000 prison berths in California alone), the crush shows little sign of easing. The inmate nation swells by 73 new members a day. At this rate, a new Folsom is needed every three weeks. Says Gerald Kaufman, an attorney for Philadelphia's National Jail and Prison Overcrowding Project: "You can't build your...
Accepting that his views no longer easily prevail, he has devoted himself instead to reining in the new court. "He does it by a very agile mind, a fluid pen and tireless work," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. The term just ended was a particularly satisfying one for Brennan, highlighted by his authorship of two decisions that strongly reasserted the constitutional separation of church and state. Brennan has spent nearly 29 years on the high bench fighting to uphold such principles, and he has some formidable weapons at his command...
...former editor at several Mississippi newspapers, Speakes worked as a press officer for both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Since he took over the job of acting press secretary when James Brady was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on the President, however, Speakes has not enjoyed as much freedom as some of his predecessors, notably Jody Powell in the Carter Administration. Some reporters, sensing that Speakes does not have complete access to Reagan's inner circle, take out their frustrations on him, thus contributing to the combative tone of the briefings...
...much time trying to figure out what life was all about," he said. "I still don't know. But now I don't give a damn." Perhaps he does nonetheless. His announcement last week may have been the best and most dramatic gesture in his long career. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles
...What happens is that a public person takes on a certain shape in the public’s mind and everything he does subsequently is judged according to that shape,” Traub says, invoking the examples of former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, who was notorious for his clumsiness, and President George W. Bush, who is regularly lambasted for making up words and misspeaking...