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...FRIEND OF THE COURT:If we didn?t have Chief Justice William Rehnquist, we wouldn?t have George W. Bush. So do we owe our current president to Watergate counsel John Dean, who championed Rehnquist?s nomination? In October, the Free Press will publish "The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that Redefined the Supreme Court" by John Dean. According to his publisher, Dean?s book is "the explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy." Author tour...
...told protesters to be quiet and let the people in power do their job. The protesters refused. Today there is much less room for questioning the perspicacity of the occupants of the White House as they dispatch the armed forces to distant locales, once again subjecting American soldiers and untold numbers of foreign civilians to the law of unintended consequences. Protest will grow slowly, but it will grow. Undoubtedly, as the anti-war movement finds its legs, the nation’s editorial pages will be filled with belittling comparisons of today’s protesters to the Vietnam generation...
...hijacked planes to meet its fate. All three passengers knew about the attacks on the World Trade Center. Did they do what we think they did? Did three strangers on a flight in distress band together to fight their captors and ditch the Boeing 757 before it could harm untold thousands...
There is a message in this for President Bush as well. At a time when the world is teetering on the brink of further violence, it is vital to strengthen all those institutions for peace. The law of unpredictable results means that violence may produce untold further violence in the future. This is particularly true in connection with the military strikes naturally being contemplated at the moment. If we were to spend even a fraction of the sums spent on defense budgets both in the U.S. and in the Middle East on serious peace initiatives, we would get much better...
...trying enough, says Gritta, to be an airline passenger on a normal day in America. Add untold delays and checkpoints and general hassle to that experience, and you could be looking at an extremely grouchy flying public. "We?ve got overcrowded, overscheduled airports," he says. "And now we?re going to add longer lines and longer check-in times...