Word: hating
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Admirers said Blackmun's devotion to people'sconcerns did not end with admiring law students-itextended even to those who violently disagreedwith him. Throughout his life, in large part due to theRoe vs. Wade decision, he received around60,000 pieces of hate mail...
...feel about L.A.? Why this love-hate-JE: I don't have a love-hate relationship with L.A. I am from L.A. I was born there in 1948, the year of the rat in Chinese astrology. And I am not being disingenuous here, but if I were born in Montana or Delaware, then I suspect if whatever happened to me happened to me, and I grew up where I grew up, then I would write crime novels about those places. Simply put, I am from L.A. It exerts a hold on me, but it's an influence that...
...surgery. Appointed to the bench in 1970 by Richard Nixon, Blackmun, a lifelong Republican, will nonetheless be remembered for his liberal instincts, most famously his 1973 majority opinion that legalized abortion. The impact of that decision was explosive and enduring. Blackmun himself received some 60,000 pieces of hate mail (all of which he read) that called him a murderer and an agent of genocide...
...defendant ought to be judged on the basis of his personal guilt or innocence, not on the basis of actions committed by others who share the same ideology. The Ku Klux Klan is free to say what it likes, pornography will not be banned, neo-Nazi hate groups will not be silenced; yet when it comes to pro-life activists, a limit on free speech seems to be uniquely justified. Such a double standard is not only intolerant and undemocratic but also hypocritical. Supporters of choice are ever-fervent in their rally for liberty--just as long as they...
CLEAN AND GREEN Love crisp, dry-cleaned clothes, but hate that the solvent used to clean them (perchloroethylene) has been deemed a probable carcinogen by the EPA? Hangers, a new chain, uses eco-friendly carbon dioxide instead. The first store opened in Wilmington, N.C., with one each coming to Chicago and Providence, R.I., this month. Retail prices match competitors', but because its machines are expensive, it could be a while before a Hangers opens near...