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Case in point: children and parents who attend Robert Cole's Little Gyms don't care that Cole is a 73-year-old international tax lawyer working in a field that attracts mostly women in their 20s. Cole has four Little Gym franchises in the northern Virginia area. The outlets offer a variety of motor-skills and developmental programs for children up to age 12. Throughout his career, Cole has wanted to work more directly with people instead of with large corporations; he rediscovered his love for children after becoming a grandfather seven years ago. "I don't care what...
...July 18] is akin to negotiating with terrorists. It only emboldens enemies of the First Amendment. The issue is not about Time magazine. It is about the public trust that you hold. Or at least held. Valarie S. Zeeck Tacoma, Washington, U.S. Time did the right thing. As a lawyer and a Democrat, I wish the Supreme Court had heard Time's appeal and protected the confidentiality of its reporter's sources. Still, I applaud Pearlstine for making the principled decision to follow the rule of law, much as he believes the law should be different. We don't have...
...Kent, England. Grassl spoke for the first time on Aug. 19, telling doctors he had lost his job in Paris and was attempting to commit suicide on the beach when police found him. Recent reports have suggested his piano skills were exaggerated and his muteness faked, but Grassl's lawyer maintains he was suffering from psychotic illness. "I am fine," were Grassl's first words to his family upon being reunited with them in Munich. "I am so happy to be home...
Judges, Roberts noted on his Senate questionnaire, "do not have a commission to solve society's problems." He has held that view since his earliest days in government. Old memos show that as a Reagan Administration lawyer, he ardently opposed judicial meddling in divisive issues he thought were best left to lawmakers. He even wrote that Congress had the power to strip the Supreme Court of its right to hear cases that involved social issues like school prayer and abortion. When Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1983 complained of the court's heavy workload, Roberts wrote a sizzling memo, observing...
...Ninth and 14th amendments. (The Ninth says just because some rights are explicitly protected doesn't mean others don't exist; the 14th says people cannot be denied life, liberty or property without due process.) At one time Roberts appeared to agree. As a young Justice Department lawyer in 1981, he summarized a lecture in which the speaker "devotes a section to the so-called 'right to privacy,' arguing as we have that such an amorphous right is not to be found in the Constitution." But this summer he told a Democratic Senator that it was hard to read...