Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judge Robert Bork, the fire-breathing right-wing ideologue who would wreak havoc on U.S. law, did not show up at the Senate Caucus Room last week. Neither did Robert Bork, the quick-witted charmer, "the bearded Ollie North," who would obliterate his opposition. The 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee met a different Robert Bork last week, one who did not quite fit the images drawn by either his liberal critics or his conservative boosters...
...would otherwise simply be an important footnote in Harvard history has taken on greater significance to some in light of two recent trends in the Harvard History department: the departure of a number of women faculty members, and the paucity of senior level appointees of the department's American wing...
...American wing, which is conducting a search for a senior level post, last hired a tenured faculty member...
Unlike the right-wing activists who hail Bork for his ideological bent, Reagan and his men have gone out of their way to present the nominee as a mainstream jurist who decides cases with a completely open mind. "If you want someone with Justice Powell's detachment and statesmanship," said the President in a speech last July, "you can't do better than Judge Bork." The White House distributed to key Senators a 70-page briefing book outlining many of Bork's rulings and proclaiming that the judge was a model practitioner of "judicial restraint...
While the new wing of Louvain Prison near Brussels is hardly luxurious, its color television sets, recreation rooms and large cells with attached bathrooms make it a relatively comfortable place to await trial. But the situation of the 26 English soccer fans now housed there is anything but comfortable. After being extradited from Britain, they face manslaughter charges arising from riots during the 1985 European Cup championships in Brussels' Heysel Stadium. Thirty-nine spectators died as they fled rabid English fans. Most of the victims were crushed to death...