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...work in the show dealing with the effect of the AIDS epidemic on women was in fact created by a male artist. Kurt Reynold's 1990 mixed-media piece "Blessed Art Thou Among Women?" illustrates the unfair treatment of women with AIDS. The base of the work is a framed picture of the Virgin Mary. Suspended in front of her portrait is a string of rosary beads made of capsules of AZT, the drug that counteracts some of the symptoms of the HIV virus...
...from a crisis as long as Haitians believe Aristide might really be restored to power. But if he isn't, Haitian eyes will soon turn again toward the U.S. Leaning on a car door to listen to the new President's Inaugural Address on the radio, 10-year-old Reynold looked happy. What did he want from Clinton? He replied, "I want him to come and get me in Haiti...
Ideology, Reynolds thus implies, is the proper--in fact the only--standard by which justices should be evaluated. By refusing to abandon more than 20 years of consistent judicial reasoning and a rights-based approach to the Constitution in order to jump on the Reagan bandwagon, Brennan utterly fails to meet the Reynold's test of judicial competence. If Brennan is a dangerous judge because of his generally liberal opinions, then only a committed conservative can save the country and the honorable Court...
...here lies the value of Reynold's speech. It confirms what we suspected all along--that Reagan could care less about the independence and integrity of the judiciary so long as it rules...
...substance of Reynold's speech is shallow and easily refuted. But the precedent which Reynolds sets is far more frightening. Supreme Court Justices are not ordinarily the subjects of personal attacks. Merely by singling out and attacking an individual Justice, Reynolds reveals his contempt for judicial independence...