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...started to make room for critics. In Beijing on Sunday, he eased his administration's sharp language of recent days, which included Vice President Dick Cheney's labeling of war critics as "reprehensible" and White House ripostes to the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages. Cheney's remark prompted response from within the increasingly restive Republican Party. "People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush told White House reporters in Beijing. "I heard somebody say, 'Well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree with my position. I totally reject that thought. This...
...WILLIAMS V. PRICE (2003) Alito's decision overturned a lower-court ruling that denied a new hearing for Ronald Williams, a defendant convicted of first-degree murder, even after a juror was overheard making a racist remark immediately after the trial. Alito reasoned that the comment, made outside the jury room, had not been justifiably excluded from consideration by the lower court. Alito's opinion granted Williams the right to argue that his imprisonment had been unlawful...
...Overturning a district court decision in Saxe v. State College Area School District, Alito boldly defended the students’ first amendment rights in non-school-sponsored speech. In Williams v. Price, he granted a writ of habeas corpus to a black prisoner when a juror made a racist remark after the trial, which emphasized the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. Alito also authored a unanimous decision in Police v. City of Newark, ruling against a law that require police officers to shave their beards, because such laws violate officers’ civil liberties...
...their first big official outing as a married couple. They will attend a seminar on youth enterprise at the U.N., see President Bush for a fancy White House dinner, probably inspect clean-up work in New Orleans and visit organic farms near San Francisco. No remark, no camera angle that can be nailed down in advance has been left to chance, but the tabloids sending their reporters on his plane (at $11,000 apiece) are on high gaffe alert. Will Charles, who asked 12 years ago, "How can any realistic person not take the threat of global warming seriously...
...sumé writing and self-presentation. A favorite tutorial she conducted focused on the dos and don'ts of e-mails. Drawing on her own experience, she offered anecdotes of disastrously funny mistakes--like hitting REPLY to a Listserv message, not realizing everyone in the office would read a catty remark about a colleague. "You're teaching these women about relationships in the workplace," Ramsden says. "I can see the difference I make...