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...simply argue that, no matter what they have done, they are entitled to fair treatment before the law. In one sense, the case is hardly unique. Thousands of defendants linger in U.S. jails awaiting trial because they cannot afford bail. Although the Eighth Amendment bans "excessive" amounts, poor suspects seldom have lawyers with the time and skill for a successful constitutional attack on high bail. And many judges use bail not just to assure that a defendant will show up at his trial, but also to keep suspects regarded as dangerous off the streets...
Upper Class. Carswell's decisions have reflected his close ties to the society in which he lives. As a member in good standing of Tallahassee's ruling class, he seldom misses one of the Cotillion Club's four annual formal dances. The Carswells have four children: two married, two in school, all living in the South. The judge lives on Lake Jackson, putters about his ten acres, plays bridge, and in the fall has a reserved seat at Florida State University football games. Carswell's defenders wonder if, once removed from this parochial atmosphere and faced...
...adult world, to win is everything, but children's games satisfy different requirements. The participants "seldom need an umpire," write the authors. "They rarely trouble to keep scores, little significance is attached to who wins or loses, they do not require the stimulus of prizes, it does not seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Indeed, children like games in which there is a sizable element of luck, so that individual abilities cannot be directly compared. They like games which restart almost automatically, so that everybody is given a new chance. They like games which move...
Theoretically, a commission is supposed to be removed from political considerations; in fact, it seldom is. When Lyndon Johnson in 1968 formed the Commission on Income Maintenance, he was not interested in obtaining an objective report on the subject from disinterested citizens. He had already made up his mind in favor of some form of income maintenance. His purpose, according to former Presidential Aide Joseph Califano, was to "try to get blue-chip prestigious commissioners on the line for something that was highly radical at the time." A President may also set up a commission to avoid dealing with...
...sound credentials for that difficult job. Before he landed at Pan Am, he was in turn an outstanding pilot, a practicing lawyer, a corporate executive and an imaginative, activist chief of the Federal Aviation Administration. He also showed himself to be accomplished in personal public relations, seldom failing to remind audiences that he was President Kennedy's principal adviser in all aviation matters. Pilots who met him at the gossip sessions known as "hangar fly-ins" took to greeting him with the line: "Halaby thy name. Thy will be done, on earth and in the heavens...