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Strangely, given his pursuit of ecstatic insight, he had no connection to the Romantic poets of his day, such as Coleridge and Wordsworth. But others he revered: John Milton, especially, whom he valued even above Dante. (He illustrated both.) Not only was Milton a republican and a sympathizer with regicides, but he also knew that the devil was beautiful, and so did Blake. Blake saw how insipid even Milton's descriptions of Paradise were compared with his visions of Hell, and pointed out that "the reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when...
...Commander Abu Sabaya vowed last week to kill the remaining hostages quickly, including American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham, if the army didn't cease its pursuit. "It would be a pity if you provoke us," warned the rebel spokesman. "We will behead the whites...
...that juries, and not judges, must make any factual findings on enhancements of penalties under the federal sentencing guidelines - he has found against the government. Another example, from 1987: Arizona v. Hicks. In that case, authorities, responding to reports of a shooting, entered an apartment without a warrant in pursuit of the shooter, saw some expensive stereo equipment while they were there, turned it around to get the serial numbers and found that it had been stolen. Scalia found the obtaining of the serial numbers to be an unconstitutional search; notice that once again it was a case involving...
...Although the leaders have manically driven and flown around the country campaigning, the journalists in pursuit of them on press buses have seemed more dutiful than excited. To enliven the tedium of long journeys with little opportunity for much real journalistic coverage, media on both the Labour and Tory buses played a bingo game. This involved picking slips out of a hat filled with Blair's and Hague's oft-repeated phrases, with scoring based on which of the phrases popped...
...time being, we wish our copper-feathered friend the best of luck. He’ll need it. Dodging the watchful eyes of the military (and the hapless pursuit of ’Poonsters) will be enough to keep him busy in the People’s Republic. How long he will remain there is uncertain...