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...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...
...Celebrating the Constitution in the shadow of Cinderella's castle--a monument to the feudal system. Very shallow indeed...
...best I can be labeled is "not an anti-social animal." If you don't know anyone here, and are shy and slow to make friends, the Big H will be a lonely place. One of the few valuable skills Harvard gave me is the ability to make shallow party chit chat with people I know nothing about, but the lessons came too late for the time I really needed them: Freshman Week...
...leaves are astonishingly well preserved. "This fossil forest is not petrified, turned to stone by minerals entering and replacing the wood cell structure," says Neil McMillan, of the Geological Survey of Canada, who discovered a similar but much smaller site 30 years ago on nearby Ellesmere Island. Instead, shallow burial in the Arctic soil has left the forest in a mummified state. As a result, says Basinger, "you can saw the wood. You can burn it." Indeed, during an expedition to the site in July, he actually brewed a pot of tea over burning fossil debris...
...that money," says Dennis Kendig, a partner in the modest-size Los Angeles firm of Sachs & Phelps. "You pay in quality of life." Hard work has always been a hallmark of the legal profession, and the reservoirs of public sympathy for well-paid attorneys are no doubt a trifle shallow. But even soaring salaries can seem a poor return for years spent on the assembly line of the law. The result: some large firms now commonly lose up to one-half of their associates. On Wall Street, for instance, many defect to investment banking, a field that lets them shape...