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...vulnerable to local pressures than any other members of the federal bench. Not only is a district judge drawn from his locality; he almost always owes his job to his state's dominant politicians-particularly the U.S. Senators. Chosen by men committed to local interests, he is then sworn to uphold national principles that may conflict with those interests...
Alabama-born and bred, Johnson could not be more sensitive to his state's cherished traditions and prejudices. His courtroom in Montgomery is only seven blocks from the statehouse, where a band played Dixie while Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate Presi- dent, and where
...Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka. In Betrothed, the heroine Susan suddenly appears before the hero, a young scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth. Agnon does not solve the dilemma any more than life does. He ends by planting doubts about Susan's reality. Did the past, once...
...between Hoover and Sen. Robert Kennedy over who was to blame for the bugging. No matter which of these men--the head of the FBI or the former Attorney General -- actually ordered the eavesdropping, the important facts remains that he did it in violation of the laws he had sworn to preserve, protect and defend. This is the widespread assumption within the Justice Department -- that the Machiavellian concept of the end jusfying the means holds in the pursuit of criminals and subversives--and it is doubtful that the President's Right of Privacy Bill would do much to change...
...Conyers got what he wanted; it was at least conceivable that Powell would be sworn in. Conyers emerged as a primary architect of the save-Powell campaign, and his remarks in the report stamped him as anything but a "sellout." Perhaps most important, his personal views -- considerably and understandably more sympathetic to Powell than almost anybody else in Congress-did not pre cent him from playing a major role in de liberations with eight other representatives for more conservative than...