Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning after igniting the riot, Mookie slinks back to demand that Sal pay him his week's wages. Behind the camera, Lee wants the same thing: to create a riot of opinion, then blame viewers for not getting the message he hasn't bothered to articulate. Though the strategy may lure moviegoers this long hot summer, it is ultimately false and pernicious. Faced with it, even Mister Senor Love Daddy might say, "Take a hike, Spike...
...opinion in favor of Johnson was written, not surprisingly, by one of the court's last liberal lions, Brennan. Equally unsurprising, the most consistent conservative on the bench, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, crafted the main dissent. What was noteworthy, however, was the unusual lineup behind them. John Paul Stevens, who by virtue of the court's rightward swing is now considered a liberal, joined with Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White in dissent. On the other side, Ronald Reagan's two conservative appointees, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, showed that when basic First Amendment rights were involved, they could...
...keep refugees out, largely by challenging whether they are legitimate refugees. The 1951 U.N. Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as any uprooted person who has "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion." Western nations claim that much of the deluge crossing their borders consists of people who are fleeing poverty rather than persecution. Thus the issue of accepting the displaced has become intertwined with policy concerns about controlling immigration. "We are not an immigration country," West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has said. "We cannot...
Last night, ABC News reported that unidentified sources told the network that Justice Harry Blackman, author of the 1973 opinion of Roe v. Wade, had requested more time to complete a "bitter" opinion in opposition to one by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But this report did not say which way the court would rule. There was no answer at the home of the court's press officer...
Given their meager influence on Israeli public opinion, which is moving furiously rightward, these interlocutors are strengthened by such criticism. At one meeting in Bardin's Jerusalem home, Jad Isaac, a Palestinian biology professor imprisoned after urging West Bank Arabs to plant vegetable gardens to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency, put it simply: "Even if all we do is talk, it is good...