Word: wayed
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This is not a final destination, but it's a good milestone along the way. And even if the autonomy talks fail, about 90% of what I am describing we could do unilaterally. There never would have been open bridges between Israel and Jordan if we had waited for King Hussein's signature; not even Henry Kissinger could have negotiated that one. The Palestinians want peace and they're ripe for some kind of settlement. I'm convinced it can be done...
...often announces that he is ''inclined'' to vote a certain way; sometimes he reserves judgment; occasionally he changes his vote. In one case, Burger voted five times at different stages of discussion: twice for, twice against and one "pass." On Burger's tombstone, a Justice once joked, should be carved the inscription, "I think I'll pass for the moment...
Justices sometimes have a way of surprising the Presidents who appoint them. Earl Warren did not turn out to be the man of moderate Republican views that Dwight Eisenhower expected him to be. The Nixon appointees have grown during their years on the Supreme Court; not surprisingly, they have also grown apart. Chief Justice Burger himself maintains that building an ideological bloc was not on his mind when he came to the court, whatever Nixon may have intended...
...Court, particularly in its attitude toward the havenots, but it certainly is not the conservative bastion that Nixon hoped to create. A decade after Burger became Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is the Burger Court in name only. In part, that is a reflection on Warren Burger and the way he has performed his role. In part, it lies in the peculiar nature of the institution and the complex interaction of the nine individuals who are on the bench...
...easily discerned. He does not have a broad vision of the court as an instrument for social reform. Nor is he particularly concerned with "judicial restraint" or the limits of the court's power. Rather, observes Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, "Burger votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First...