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...Contrary to legend, however, the "junior court" does not come close to running the Supreme Court. Clerks have been known to help draft an opinion, and they serve the function of conveying what their old professors think (often not much) of their new bosses' thinking. But mostly they toil away at screening certiorari petitions (appeals for review), writing memos that sum up the issues, and doing the research that goes into well-honed opinions...
...what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep...
Said the President: "We do not try to mask our national problems, whatever they may be, under a cloak of secrecy. We do not try to cover up our failures. We freely admit them and bend our energies and toil to meet them. I know of no other great power in the history of the world which so freely admitted its faults and felt it had such a moral duty to correct...
...country's 100-odd law reviews are wholly run by the aristocrats of U.S. law schools-fearsomely bright students who toil around the clock polishing deep-think articles that influence U.S. law right up to the Supreme Court. "Nowadays a case doesn't reach the end of the line with the Supreme Court," says one admiring law professor. "The last resort is what the law reviews say they think about...
Everybody Planning. All the fertilizer in the world will not solve the fundamental dilemma of Soviet agriculture: the nature of the peasant. No incentives yet devised have ever persuaded him to devote to impersonal toil a scintilla of the love and labor he lavishes on the minute patch of land he can still call his own. From privately owned plots, amounting to a bare 3% of all cultivated land in Russia, comes half of all the nation's meat, milk, green vegetables. But the bureaucracy adamantly refuses to expand the private plots...