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...Administration opponents, that kind of judicial restraint sounds like an attack on three decades of decisions expanding basic rights. Liberal Justice William Brennan was sufficiently troubled to make a rare off-the-bench speech on the subject. "We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th century Americans," Brennan unrepentantly told a Georgetown University audience three weeks ago. It is "little more than arrogance" to believe that anyone can "gauge accurately the intent of the framers." Last week Moderate Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in with remarks to a group of Chicago lawyers, attacking...
...cowboy logic figured in the recent terrorist incident, was most accurate when it depicted Theodore Roosevelt as a good guy doing battle with bad guys. This image of frontier justice has been a long-standing and powerful one in the American consciousness. After all, when T.R. succeeded the assassinated William McKinley as President in 1901, anguished Republican Business Leader Mark Hanna remarked, "That damned cowboy is President of the United States!" William M. Wemple Fort Washington...
...William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker--and a man famous for his almost mandarin courtesy--young Wally was raised in a cocoon of kindness where such selfishness was unthinkable. Only when he was sent away to summer camp did he learn the awful truth about the rest of humanity. He has never recovered from the shock. "The counselors were very rough and occasionally sadistic. Once, when they were annoyed with a boy, they actually suggested that we beat him up! The whole world turned out to be like that camp. I still can't get over...
...Soviet girlfriend living in Canada? Or was he an ingenious fake, his flight to the U.S. and subsequent reversal shrewdly planned by the Soviets to humiliate the Reagan Administration and to glean secrets from debriefing sessions with the CIA? Either way, Yurchenko's flip-flop deeply embarrassed CIA Director William Casey and his agency. "You've either got a defector who was allowed to just walk away under circumstances I can't accept or you have a double agent planted on the U.S.," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...
Many are resigned to never knowing the whole story behind Yurchenko and how much he helped--or hurt--U.S. intelligence. As Republican Senator William Cohen put it last week, pondering the world of espionage is akin to stepping "into an infinite line of mirrors where it's impossible to detect reality from reflection." The world may never even learn the ultimate fate of Yurchenko, who is now probably undergoing another heavy bout of debriefing, this time, of course, by the KGB. "Yurchenko will go home to a hero's welcome, be put on the lecture circuit there, and then, when...