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...story the critics have cited concerns a 1972 decision, Moore vs. Illinois, that denied a new trial to a man who faced a life sentence for murdering a bartender in a tavern quarrel. As the book tells it, Brennan favored a retrial but decided to join in the majority opinion. Reason: Brennan was concerned that Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, would be "personally offended" if he dissented and thus might not support him in other cases. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis decided to probe this account of cynical legal horse-trading, which the book suggested was based...
...after the overthrow and execution of Hafizullah Amin last December. Karmal did seem to be losing control of events. Early last week, diplomats living near the People's Palace in Kabul heard bursts of machine-gun fire coming from inside the building. This led to speculation that a quarrel had erupted among rival members of the Politburo and had ended in a gunfight. Lending credence to that theory was an official Afghan news agency report a couple of days later that said that Deputy Premier Sultan Ali Kishtmand, a bitter opponent of Sarwari, had been flown to Moscow...
While few lawyers quarrel with the goals of joint-custody advocates, many question the wisdom of this arrangement. "It's the easiest thing for a judge to decide," says Family Law Expert Henry S. Foster Jr., professor emeritus at New York University Law School. "He then abdicates his responsibility. The judge represents the conscience of the community; he should meticulously examine all the facts from the perspective of the child and then decide." Of course, such an arrangement can succeed only if the parents are able to work out details harmoniously, a hedge that can be tough...
...Bolshevik armed forces in the October 1917 revolution. After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky lost a struggle for power to Stalin; this ended in Trotsky's banishment and Stalin's Great Purge of supposed "Trotskyites" in the late 1930s. The consequences of that savage quarrel run like a sanguinary thread throughout the Trotsky correspondence...
...knowing whether he was north or south or blue or gray, and became a captain in a raiding fore that was a adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson's death, he killed a fellow officer in a quarrel; William Bell was ordered to be shot by his commander-in-chief, in a letter in Lee's own hand, January 1, 1864, in a camp outside Lexington. Instead, he escaped by knifing his guard and lived to greatly approve of the Radical Republicans and American expansion. He named his son Seward...