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...Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger among its more than 4,000 members, has just accepted some Hollywood heavies into its ranks. In a "recognition that foreign affairs goes beyond government to the world of culture," says a spokeswoman, the think tank and publisher awarded memberships last month to applicants WARREN BEATTY, a Senator in Bulworth; Michael Douglas, the leader of the free world in The American President; and Richard Dreyfuss, a Latin American dictator in Moon over Parador. The trio may now join fellow actor and member Ron Silver at the group's speaking events and book-club meetings...
...IMPORTANT IS IT, GIVEN THE SUPREME COURT'S CURRENT MAKEUP, TO HAVE A CHIEF JUSTICE WHO CAN REACH ACROSS IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDES AND BUILD CONSENSUS? I think that's very important, but Chief Justices have come from remarkably strange places. Nobody would have predicted that Earl Warren would have been able to do that on Brown v. Board of Education. When President Nixon tapped Warren Burger to be Chief Justice, he was a relatively unknown circuit judge and did very, very well...
...bottom line is that bankruptcy was always to be avoided--think of the emotional strain, the wrecked credit--but now even more so. Says Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor and author of All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan: "The safety net for middle-class families just got smaller...
Freshman Max Warren may also get a chance in the outfield as well...
...opinion this time around. Why did Kennedy change his mind? Legal tradition invites him to do so. Since 1958 the court has applied a flexible standard to interpreting the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments." What we mean by the phrase, wrote then Chief Justice Earl Warren in Trop v. Dulles, depends on "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society...