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...thought it important to say what's on his mind, whether it's persuasive or not," observes Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. "That irritates some Justices." Adds Georgetown Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "He seemed prepared in many cases to, if not exactly reinvent the wheel, then at least reinterpret it. In every major case, he has to have his own little John Paul Stevens theory...
Hard by the harbor's edge in the venerable Massachusetts fishing port of Gloucester stands the bronze statue of a fisherman, dressed in slicker and sou'wester hat and clutching a schooner's wheel. He is gazing resolutely seaward, as if on the lookout for one of the gales that have claimed thousands of local sailors since the town was settled in 1623. But today a storm of quite a different kind is swirling through Gloucester. This one pits the townspeople against the Moonies, the disciples of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church has been...
...progression westward over space corresponded with the steady upward incline of opportunity over time. "You can't stop progress," Americans would tell one another with an air of dazzled exuberance or a rueful sigh. The future was bearing down on the land like a grinning child at the wheel of something roaring, gaudily bright and faintly dangerous...
...antitraffic offensive has had the desired effect. Motorists are thinking twice before venturing out on the highways, since each trip behind the wheel is a motorist's version of Russian roulette. Still, the police may have been needlessly thorough. With the U.S. and perhaps as many as 50 other nations bypassing the Moscow Games, a lot of traffic removal will have taken care of itself...
...Lindsay had an unexpected run-in with a non-voter. The cyclist, a distinct long shot in his bid to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, swerved his ten-speed to avoid a charging dog. Too late. The angry dog rammed into the underdog's front wheel and sent Lindsay hurtling over his handle bars. Grounded with a fractured collarbone, he noted wryly: "This is not the kind of break that a candidate hopes...