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...every case Roberts has worked on will suit their purposes. Although for the most part he has shown a reliably conservative streak, Roberts has also taken some surprising stances, defending the rights of welfare recipients, criminal defendants and prisoners in pro bono cases, for instance, and representing the state attorneys general in their antitrust case against Microsoft. Still, while usually taking a fairly pragmatic approach to the law, Roberts has by and large demonstrated a consistent legal philosophy: it stresses relative judicial restraint and takes a limited view of congressional power but a broader view of executive privilege...
...Roberts co-wrote the government's brief arguing that a new law criminalizing flag burning was in fact constitutional. But as a private attorney, he successfully helped Soldier of Fortune magazine fight a suit brought by a woman charging that the magazine had been negligent in running an ad that her son-in-law had used to hire a hit man to kill her daughter. Upcoming Cases: One revolves around whether Congress can withhold funding from universities that claim they have a First Amendment right to make it hard for the military to recruit on campus because they view...
...battalions in World War II and Korea, and landed in Vietnam as the great hope of the Johnson Administration. But after the 1968 Tet offensive fueled opposition to the war, he was brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White House and public about enemy troop strength, also ended with a whimper, settled with both parties claiming victory. Still, Westmoreland inspired enthusiasm among many of those he commanded. "He was the storybook soldier, South Carolina...
...Managing to stick to Roald Dahl’s back story without hitting on the potential racism of the book’s portrait, we are treated to an army of itty bitty people, all digitally depicted by Deep Roy. Though Roy’s facial expressions and personality suit the Loompas, it is their new sense of harmony that really sings...
...year after settling a long-running U.S. antitrust suit, De Beers has opened its first American retail business in New York City. Last month some 1,500 customers thronged to the unveiling, which featured the Millennium Star, one of the world's largest flawless diamonds, weighing 203 carats. Also in attendance: protesters from Survival International, a charity that has dogged the De Beers Group for allegedly helping push the bushmen of Botswana off their land. De Beers LV, the retail joint venture with LVMH, is operated independently of the parent company but has still drawn the ire of human-rights...