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...Administration's failure to make a case was highlighted by the fact that Powell wrote the court's opinion. Just last year, when Powell was a lawyer in private practice, he wrote that "the outcry against wiretapping is a tempest in a teapot. Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear." From his new vantage point on the Supreme Court, however, Powell found that the Government's electronic surveillance was not "a welcome development -even when employed with restraint...
...adversary proceeding that is the essence of democracy, every election poses a complaint and offers a remedy of sorts. This process of criticism is supposed to hone down, and largely has, those principles or procedures or institutions that have proved structurally sound, like towers that withstand the tempest, but need the remorseless shaping that criticism alone can provide...
...wintry countryside preparing for last week's parliamentary elections, farmers gave one candidate the cold shoulder by drowning out his voice beneath the roar of their tractor engines. With 75% of the country's three million voters going to the polls, the election proved to be a tempest in an ice bucket. Almost nothing changed, and no single party dominated, leaving Kekkonen with the task of forming yet another coalition Cabinet...
...Raffles, who paid $5,000 for the right to found an English settlement on Singapore in 1819, cherished a lofty vision of its future. "Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters of light," he said. "Let her not be remembered as the tempest whose course was desolate, but as the gale of spring reviving the slumbering seeds of mind ... If the time shall come when her empire shall have passed away, these monuments will endure...
...were not in such an important teapot, the argument would be a tiny tempest indeed, a disagreement among a small group of men over the editorship of a publication that sells slightly more than 70,000 copies every three months. But the publication is Foreign Affairs-the most prestigious journal of its kind in the world. And the quarrel is a family matter for a major segment of the nation's intellectual and political Establishment-the nearly 1,500 members of the Council on Foreign Relations...