Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role of a judge: Liberal, moderate, conservative shouldn't apply to judging. The correct philosophy is to judge according to the intent of the / legislature or the intent of the Constitution's framers. Judges are overwhelmingly from a very narrow segment of society, and if they begin to read their own ideals into the law, then most of society isn't represented...
...school prayer: People have tried to read my mind on this because I've commented on the constitutional conflicts in some religion cases. The truth is that I don't know what I think about school prayer, because I've never stopped and thought the subject through...
...became a popular but bookish teenager who mystified his friends in the solidly Republican town of Ben Avon, a Pittsburgh suburb, by declaring himself a socialist. His father, a purchasing agent for a steel company, and his mother, a teacher, both thought the flirtation with socialism was crazy. "I read The Coming Struggle for Power, a Marxist analysis of capitalism by John Strachey," he recalled later. "It was powerful stuff and I thought it was probably true...
...debt-ridden PTL. Looking a little pale at the top of the 163-ft.-long water slide, Falwell recited the Lord's Prayer before his hellish four-second descent into the pool below, where he landed shoes up. Nearby, a group of PTL partners brandished a sign that read FALWELL, DON'T BACKSLIDE...
Bell also read several excerpts from his new book, And We Are Not Saved, which includes the Chronicles of Geneva Crenshaw, an imaginary Black civil rights lawyer...