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...pretty much knew who he was, and his principles were all established by the time he arrived at college,” says Bush, who was Roberts’ roommate for three years, adding that Roberts “did not come off as a staunch conservative...
...good fight (he did, falling down two sets and a break before chipping away at Blake’s lead). And perhaps most of all, they wanted to see for themselves that Agassi, the recent subject of rampant retirement speculation, still had that glint in his eye, that staunch refusal to concede in his stride...
...color-coded graphic showing the Supreme Court Justices' "ideological palette," TIME did not identify any of them as "staunch liberal," while labeling three as "staunch conservative." A more helpful illustration would have been a list of a few recent rulings side by side with the names of the Justices who voted with the majority. Attaching a label to a Justice is too simplistic, especially when there is no common agreement on what the label means. The media should concentrate on the character and qualifications of a potential nominee rather than his or her political leanings. Jack Lee Yorktown Heights...
...astronauts' final day began with Scotland the Brave, piped over the radio. The song was for Laurel Clark, the doctor from Iowa who was coming to the end of her first space flight. Did she know the words? "Wild are the winds to meet you. Staunch are the friends that greet you, kind as the love that shines from fair maidens' eyes." Her friends and family had been waiting to greet her from the moment she left. After Columbia lifted off safely, Clark's brother Daniel Salton told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he realized he had been holding...
...your color-coded graphic showing the Supreme Court Justices' "ideological palette," TiME did not identify any of them as "staunch liberal," while labeling three as "staunch conservative." A more helpful illustration would have been a list of a few recent rulings side by side with the names of the Justices who voted with the majority. Attaching a label to a Justice is too simplistic, especially when there is no common agreement on what the label means. The media should concentrate on the character and qualifications of a potential nominee rather than his or her political leanings...