Word: william
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...dramatic decisions were written by Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor, who were joined by Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The rulings, together with a decision holding that police need not use the "exact form" of the Miranda warnings to inform arrested suspects of their rights, left little doubt that the court's tough law-and-order majority is firmly entrenched. "The days of criminals' getting off on technicalities are over," declared Daniel Popeo, head of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, surveying the overall rightward drift of the Rehnquist Court's criminal...
...seized on this tip as a chance to expand its responsibility for the security of uncoded communications at U.S. embassies, a traditional CIA and State Department domain. "Basically, NSA did an end run around ((director of Central Intelligence William)) Casey," says a senior security official. The NSA went straight to the White House, and persuaded President Reagan to let it replace all U.S. communications equipment in Moscow. In the spring of 1984 Operation Gunman discovered Soviet bugs in 17 embassy typewriters. "NSA's stock rose tremendously after that," recalls a former senior technical security expert...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
...William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not fight over drinking water as they rambled through the Lake District. In any case, the important thing to Toad was that walking put the mind in motion, and might even set poetry in motion. A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language...