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...about-face. More frequently, though, opposition has been more diffuse, leading the court to beat only a partial retreat or ignore its critics. During the 1960s, for example, Congress complained about the Warren Court's school prayer and apportionment decisions, but there was no public outcry, and the court stood its ground...
...Colin Powell said he "would close Guantánamo not tomorrow but this afternoon." How about four or five years ago, Mr. Powell, when you should have stood against the prison and the Iraq war prevarication...
...detachment from the rest of the attendees, we amused ourselves with people-watching. There was the middle-aged man in the Kent State t-shirt, the young women in spaghetti straps and heels. The dozen twenty-something guys in dress shirts, khakis, and black messenger bags. On the periphery stood my two friends and me, undergraduates in a sea of yuppies...
Darling's appointment signals continuity but Brown's constant mantra of recent weeks has been change, a woolly promise to be different from his predecessor, which the politician again invoked as he stood poised to enter Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister. The list of new ministers and departures in the style and presentation of the reshuffle have given the first hints of what form this change may take...
...hipsters of Madison Avenue, Weiner says, tapped into a dissonance apparent to a generation that had seen the horrors of World War II followed by a postwar façade of peace and innocence. Ads like "Think Small" and Avis' "We Try Harder" don't seem shocking now, but they stood out then because they made virtues of limitations. More broadly, they sold the idea that the surface assumptions of a cocky nation--e.g., that biggest was best--weren't necessarily correct. Whereas hit TV at the time was simple, credulous and guileless: westerns, Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas...