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...allow a cathartic resolution of the debilitating constitutional problem we have been suffering under for 40 years: arrogant, activist courts trampling the prerogatives of elected legislatures and elected governments in deciding how we are to live. Christmas creches snatched from public displays under the baroque, three-pronged "Lemon test"; Miranda rules plucked out of thin air; the right to abortion suddenly located in the "penumbra" of the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Our Imperial Judiciary | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...happen to like Miranda. I happen to support legalized abortion. But many citizens don't. And they rightly feel aggrieved that these momentous decisions were made by unelected grandees in black robes. (The U.S. is the only Western country to have legalized abortion without the consent of its legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Our Imperial Judiciary | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Burr will also be watching newcomer Miranda Craigwell, who was the first player in her high school to score 1,000 points. Craigwell should benefit from McDonald and Larkin's guidance...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Basketball: Ivy League Preview | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Burr will also be watching newcomer Miranda Craigwell, who was the first player in her high school to score 1,000 points. Craigwell will benefit from McDonald and Larkin's guidance...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Basketball: Ivy League Preview | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...coincidence that Miranda graduated from Harvard Law School. She no doubt carries the Harvard burden--that of career ambition complicated by the desire to be risqu, sexy and fun--but she also wears it exceptionally well. Miranda's feisty, self-confident and independent spirit helps justify our obsessions with sex, smoking, shoes or success. Choose your vice--or, as is the case with most of us--your combination of them...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: Sex in the Square | 9/28/2000 | See Source »

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