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...Judging the Nominee Re your report on supreme court nominee John Roberts [Aug. 1]: As a Roman Catholic like Roberts, I want to say that being Catholic does not necessarily make a person a right-wing religious fanatic or a pawn of the Pope. Catholics are thinking individuals. I am not a Republican, but I would not mind seeing Roberts as a Justice. Any chance Bush might resign and John Roberts become President? Nils J. Mikkelsen Plano, Texas...
...that evening, seven helicopters from the Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Wing out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., had ferried hundreds of refugees onto the runway at New Orleans Lakefront Airport, where they waited in darkness to go somewhere, anywhere. Beside them, Colonel Tim Tarchick, the wing commander, screamed into his satellite phone at someone from the Emergency Operations Center. "I've got 1,000 people who have been dropped here. We're out of food, and they're starting to get tense. We need security. It's like frickin' Baghdad here. You have to take control," he yelled...
...Rehnquist's conservatism mellowed over the years. His early 8-1 dissents, so provocatively right-wing in tone, deliquesced in later years into establishmentarian opinions defending many precedents-even liberal ones. For example, he angered conservatives in 2000 when he personally wrote the opinion upholding Miranda v. Arizona, the decision requiring police to read those they take into custody their rights, a ruling Rehnquist had savaged over the years. "Miranda has become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture," Rehnquist wrote in an opinion that the fiery young Rehnquist...
...like fricking Baghdad here. You have got to take control of this." He is talking to the New Orleans emergency operations center but isn?t sure who has full command of the patchwork of rescue services operating in the area. Tarchick, commander of the Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Wing, runs seven of the dozens of rescue helicopters hovering over New Orleans and bringing the stranded to dry land . He's sifting through conflicting information on where to go to help the most needy, or where to take them once they're saved. Tarchick would later find out that Lakefront...
...ordinary Palestinians is that the Israelis ran away from Hamas. The fact that it was a unilateral withdrawal is taken by those same Palestinians as evidence that negotiations by the Palestinian Authority don't get such good results as Hamas's violence. Now, leaders of Hamas's military wing say they'll chase the Israelis out of the West Bank in the end, the same way they pushed them out of Gaza...