Word: narrowed
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...along the pavements, keeping low, chased by the sound of gunfire and more explosions. The nearest escape route is 33rd Street, narrow like so many in the downtown area, and it is a seething bottleneck of people - sitting ducks - so I run on and dart up 34th Street. Are they firing over our heads? Not all the time. Not far from where I had been standing lies the body of Japanese cameraman Kenji Nagai, shot dead by a soldier at point-blank range...
That these Justices so often find their attention captured by discrete cases that pirouette on a narrow point of law suits their shared temperament. They are like priests, schooled from an early age in the orthodoxies, mysteries and controversies of the constitutional faith. Many of them have been enfolded from an early age in the ideological apparatus of the right or the left. As young Justice Department lawyers in the early days of Ronald Reagan, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito played on the same volleyball team, and both men were quickly marked for big things and nurtured for the bench...
...court has been deciding cases in this realm since before Roberts was born. As you might expect, given all that history, the unresolved issues were rather narrow. Author Richard Kluger once wrote of Brown, "Probably no case ever to come before the nation's highest tribunal affected more directly the minds, hearts and daily lives of so many Americans." All these years later, the Seattle and Kentucky cases affected "a few handfuls" of students in Seattle, according to lower court findings, and fewer than 1 out of 20 school assignments in Jefferson County...
Apparently, firing a popgun requires a lot more rhetoric than loosing a thunderclap. The unanimous court in Brown needed just 14 calmly crafted pages to deliver its ruling. The Roberts Court devoted 178 pages, in five separate opinions, to its narrow resolution of the smaller questions. And what did the Justices say in all those pages? Little, if anything, new. As the Rehnquist Court held in 2003, schools may not use simple racial classifications as the determining factor for admitting students. Administrators in Seattle and Jefferson County were advised to find more nuanced ways to achieve diversity...
...clear goal that was carrying too much momentum to be stopped by the goalkeeper’s outstretched hand. The latter half of the match boasted several close shots with sophomore Kelcey Harrison’s kick that grazed the upper left post, missing the net by a narrow margin. Merritt also had an attempt that hit the crossbar and rolled behind the net a few minutes before the game ended. “I am trying to turn and go at the goal and shoot more,” Merritt said. “Good things happen when...