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...what I got instead was a bear hug," Souter recalled. "Justice Brennan just threw his arms around me and he hugged me, and he hugged me, and he went on hugging me for a very, very long time." But the man whose writings made him a hero was characteristically modest in describing his own accomplishments. "I'd like to have it concluded that I had not only done my best but that my best was consistent with both our society's aims and with the court's responsibilities," Brennan said once. "I suppose that's it, that...
...James Marshall eludes the invaders, and finds himself stalking the surprisingly capacious byways of the plane. "There is good -- sometimes witty -- suspense in Marshall?s single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools (a table knife, a cell phone, a fax machine) come to hand," says Schickel. "One wishes, though, that the movie, directed by Wolfgang Petersen ('Das Boot,' 'In the Line of Fire'), had retained its claustrophobic intimacy to the end." As Schickel notes, "no big-time action film can conclude without...
...turned out, the ship did not exactly thread this navigational needle, slipping into the atmosphere just before 10 a.m. Pacific time at an incline of 13.9[degrees]. In the cluster of cubicles that serve as J.P.L.'s modest mission control, the engineers seated at consoles leaned forward, looking for the telemetry numbers that would indicate that the ship was indeed decelerating as it should. Support engineers stood behind them, squinting at the screens. At his console, chief engineer Rob Manning scanned the numbers flowing back from space. "Spacecraft is now slowing down very rapidly," he said reassuringly...
...were more nuanced. Although the 35 states with outright bans on doctor-assisted suicide may now enforce them with greater assurance, the court rulings did not preclude states from voting to allow assisted suicide, as Oregon did in 1994. The right Rehnquist denied was so broadly stated that more modest constitutional claims may someday be affirmed. And five Justices, a majority, wrote concurring opinions that further qualified his meaning. The court's fondest hope appeared to be that its judgment, as Rehnquist wrote, "permits this debate to continue, as it should in a democratic society." The court also seemed...
...courts have refused to accept. In April, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar spent leftover campaign funds on TV ads to build support for his solution--raising income taxes. But his own party killed the bill in committee. Having watched these stumbles, Voinovich is aiming at something more modest. Early this week, a task force he named to solve the problem is set to unveil its plan--probably a penny increase in the state's 5% sales tax. Proceeds would go to the neediest districts. The tax would fall heaviest on the poor, but in Ohio's hot economy, Voinovich...