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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the Lowell House resident's mail was a letter addressed to Mr. Robert Bork, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, which was not meant for him but for another Robert Bork who has never resided in Cambridge...
...joked with my father about getting mail[meant for Judge Bork], but we agreed that it washighly improbable," said the Lowell Houseresident. He said he had thought about thepossibility of receiving letters intended for "theother guy" 10 years ago, during Nixon'spresidency, but had forgotten about theconservative politician until this summer...
...person, with uncharacteristic somberness, he says, "When you're younger, you want to be sure that by the time you're 80 years old you can sit on the bench and look back and say, 'Man, I did it all. I didn't miss a thing.' What you never meant to do was to hurt anyone, but then you see the look on the face of the person you didn't mean to hurt, and then you realize that what you stand to lose is worth so much more . . ." He pauses. "I just asked my wife and my kids...
...Reagan Administration contends the station is meant to close a gap in the Soviets' early-warning radar network. To prevent longer-range tracking of missiles, the ABM treaty requires that such stations be on the perimeter of the U.S.S.R. Krasnoyarsk is 480 miles inland. This location and the type of radar under construction, says the Pentagon, would be suitable for a Soviet Star Wars system in which the station could direct interception of incoming missiles. The Soviets have claimed the radar would be used only to track satellites in deep space, which would not violate any treaties...
...addition to providing a rationale for the court's pro-abortion decision, privacy has been invoked in arguments favoring gay rights. In a 1984 ruling that upheld the Navy's discharge of a petty officer for homosexual conduct, Bork aired the view that whatever the Supreme Court may have meant by privacy, it did not cover homosexual relations. Last year, a 5-to-4 court majority joined by Justice Powell also rejected the idea of a constitutional right to homosexual conduct...