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Before the conservative tide prevailed, however, Marshall helped to ensure liberal victories in dozens of cases involving issues he cared most about: civil liberties, affirmative action, the rights of the accused, abortion, the death penalty. He read the Constitution in the broad light of its Preamble, with its spacious promises to "promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty . . ." He took that to mean the most important role of the Constitution was to ensure fair treatment for the disadvantaged in a world where judges, police and legislatures could not be counted on to exercise their power fairly...
...Five months ago, he found what he was looking for in an enclave amid 750,000 largely destitute and rebellious Palestinians in one of the most densely populated areas in the world: the Gaza Strip. "There is no place else like this," says Bloch, 57, as he tends the spacious sea-view garden of his $70,000 two-bedroom duplex. "It's a real paradise...
...voting for a month. Election-related mayhem had taken 229 lives across the country even before Gandhi's assassination; in its wake, 26 more people died. A week of national mourning was proclaimed, and Gandhi's body was laid to rest in state in Teen Murti House, the spacious dwelling that had been the residence of the colonial armed-forces chief under the British...
What's wrong with housing the excess books in the basement of Weld? How about the unoccupied Pizzeria Regina building? Maybe the spacious Pi Eta club would open its doors to some of the Widener overflow, perhaps even to books written by women...
...before studying English at Miami University in Ohio. He recently married 26-year-old Amy Lumet, daughter of film director Sidney Lumet and also Lena Horne's granddaughter, and the couple split their time between a 60-acre spread in Shannon, N.H., where Amy is completing college, and a spacious apartment in Washington...