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Most sources agree that Burger has been found lacking on both counts. A Justice's written opinion is his most effective tool of persuasion. ''Votes change in the writing perhaps more often than in conference,'' says Justice Byron R. White. Yet Burger's colleagues find that drafts of his opinions often carry mistakes or gaps of logic; of the final product, Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther says, ''Only in rare opinions do you get a carefully thought-out, well-developed argument...
...commander who helped develop the U.S. Army's armored units; in Washington, D.C. A deft administrator and one of the best polo players in the military, "Jakie" was charged in 1941 with welding the ragtag tank, infantry and artillery units of the fledgling armored forces into an effective tool for modern, mechanized warfare. In 1943 Devers became European theater commander for U.S. forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower; he later helped direct the Allies' North African and Italian campaigns and plan the Normandy invasion. In 1945 Devers succeeded General Joseph W. Stilwell as commander of U.S. Army ground...
...under John Kenneth Galbraith. "After breaking his leg in a skiing accident," says Ungeheuer, "Galbraith regaled his students with an unsentimental view of human fallibility, reminding them that man's greed and short memory make monetary history eminently repeatable." Such lessons, notes Ungeheuer, "blessed us with that indispensable tool of economic journalism: magnificent hindsight." Last year, however, when reporting on the coming gold rush for TIME, Ungeheuer demonstrated the much rarer gift of economic foresight, predicting in January 1978 that gold would break the $200-an-ounce barrier later that year. Alas, says Ungeheuer, "I failed to back this...
...Every hospital is going to have to have at least one if they are going to deliver first class medical care," Rumbaugh said yesterday. The device "is a tremendous diagnostic tool which has "almost revolutionized the treatment of injuries such as head trauma," he added...
Astronomers and archaeologists have long speculated that Stonehenge, a ring-like structure of tremendous stones built in southern England more than 4000 years ago, may have been a pre-historic astronomic research tool...