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...joining the Gulf Coast League Yankees, the team’s principal rookie league affiliate based in Tampa, Mann encountered a whole new ballgame. Strict measures, including 11 o’clock mandatory week-day curfews at the team hotel, made life outside of baseball nearly impossible. Only weekend afternoons by the hotel pool and bay fishing served to interrupt the daily grind of workouts and games...
...while Roberts, who said that he does not feel uncomfortable being labeled a “strict constructionist,” expounded on his general approach to the law, his reluctance to discuss the specifics of cases and issues that are likely to come before the Court appeared to irk several of the committee’s Democratic members...
Many Republican committee members praised Roberts’ professional credentials and his promise to emphasize respect for legal precedent and a strict adherence to the rule...
...that Rehnquist is gone, his passions for limited government and strict constitutional interpretation will be carried further by his more ideological heirs, Thomas and Antonin Scalia-and, presumably, by whomever Bush appoints to replace him. But Scalia lacks the temperament-and Thomas, the vision-to match the departed Chief. His spare and often brilliant reasoning didn't ignite the conservative revolution that some predicted, but with the help of a new crop of like-minded colleagues, it did bring a generation of liberal activism on the court to an end.-With reporting by Melissa August, Perry Bacon Jr. and Viveca...
...cyberspying metastasizes, frustrated network protectors say that the FBI in particular doesn't have enough top-notch computer gumshoes to track down the foreign rings and that their hands are often tied by the strict rules of engagement. That's where independents--some call them vigilantes--like Carpenter come in. After he made his first discoveries about Titan Rain in March 2004, he began taking the information to unofficial contacts he had in Army intelligence. Federal rules prohibit military-intelligence officers from working with U.S. civilians, however, and by October, the Army passed Carpenter and his late-night operation...