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Kennedy is conservative enough to have written opinions displeasing some feminists, gay-rights activists and civil libertarians. But students of his career agree that his hallmark is conservatism in a quite different sense: he avoids propounding sweeping doctrines of how to interpret the Constitution. Instead, he often decides cases on the narrowest possible grounds. Says Alex Kozinski, a former Kennedy clerk and now a colleague on the Ninth Circuit bench: "Judge Bork is an academician. He has an overall theory of the law and the Constitution, and he tries to fit cases into that theory. Tony Kennedy is much more...
...couches glee in his despair. His smugness and "Letterman-esque snidery" are much more apparent. He relates that the Index tells us "40 percent of Iowans have a hard time singing The Star-Spangled Banner.'" The people who compiled the book, as well as its readership, would probably interpret a universal Midwestern knowledge of the national anthem as the mindless nationalism most of them undoubtedly believe is characteristic of the region. You're damned if you do and you're damned...
Devotees rely on a variety of methods to interpret their dreams and arrive at that stage of enlightenment known in dreamwork circles as "aha!" One popular technique is re-creating the vision as a drawing or collage. Many groups favor a method devised by Psychiatrist Montague Ullman of Ardsley, N.Y., in which one member relates a dream to the others; listeners then respond by expressing how it makes them feel. In analyzing their visions, dreamworkers often find solutions to their problems. Indeed, says San Francisco's Delaney, nighttime images are a "reflection of your own mind considering challenges that...
...know how Robert Bork claims the Constitution should be interpreted. Better to ask now what that tells us about how Robert Bork and those of like mind interpret America and whether that interpretation is one that fits and honors our traditions and aspirations as a nation...
...Original intent has a strong gravitational pull," acknowledges Columbia Law Professor Henry Monaghan. But how specific an intent are we looking for? Today's interpreters of the Constitution, for example, would never tolerate the brutality of the criminal punishments that were prevalent 200 years ago -- brandings, say, or the puncturing of nostrils. Notes Federal Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman: "I regard reliance on original intent to be a largely specious mode of interpretation. I often find it instructive to consult the framers when I am called upon to interpret the Constitution. But it is the beginning of my inquiry...