Word: stewart
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...future generations of all Americans whose lives are so deeply affected by decisions of the court. Rather, I pledged to appoint a woman who meets the very high standards I demand of all court appointees." So saying, he introduced his nominee to succeed retiring Associate Justice Potter Stewart as "a person for all seasons," with "unique qualities of temperament, fairness, intellectual capacity." She was Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, the first woman to serve as majority leader of a U.S. state legislature and, since 1979, a judge in the Arizona State Court of Appeals...
When Leonard won the WBC welterweight crown, Hearns's manager, Emmanuel Stewart, asked Dundee for a shot at the title. Dundee told him to first get the other half of the title--the WBA half-owned by Pipino Cuevas. That was a good idea, but Cuevas wanted no part of Hearns either. Finally, the WBA ordered Cuevas to give Hearns a shot. It was set for August 1980, a few months after the first Leonard-Duran fight...
Though impossible to pigeonhole, Stewart has generally defended civil rights. He creatively used reconstruction Era statutes to strike down race discrimination, but he opposed Government-mandated affirmative action (socalled reverse discrimination) as well. A former chairman of the Yale Daily News who almost became a journalist, he believes fervently in a vigorous press. Purveyeors of hard-core pornography in his view, deserve less protection. In his most famous phrase, Stewart said he could not define pornography, "but, I know it when I see it." He joked last week that the words might turn up on his tombstone...
...Stewart has always relished his work. He never missed a day of oral arguments and often peppered attorneys with questions. His opinions are notably craftsmanlike, concise and crisply turned. An affable man away from the bench, his major interests aside from the law and his family (he has three children) are fishing and the Cincinnati Reds. During the 1973 playoffs between the Reds and the New York Mets, he was hearing arguments at the court and had his clerks slip him inning-by-inning, then batter-by-batter, reports. When Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation came through during...
...Stewart insisted last week that it was precisely because he retained his energy and breadth of interests that he wanted to quit while he could still enjoy them. Judges know best when to bring their tenure to an end, he said. After all, they serve during good behavior-"and whatever else growing old is, it isn't bad behavior." -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Evan Thomas/Washington