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...country. There were hints that Ginsburg, a student of the University of Chicago's Richard Posner, was more inclined to law-and-economics than to law-and-order. Former colleagues on the Law School faculty suggested we might be surprised by his liberal views on social issues. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...
...first year, traditionally known as the internship. A typical schedule: at least five days a week, a minimum of 16 hours a day, plus being "on call" in the hospital every third night. In large big-city hospitals, those nights on call often mean 36 hours without a wink of sleep. During that crucial first year, "I was tired enough that I nodded off at the surgery table," admits Michael Longaker, who is still putting in 18-hour days as a third-year resident in cardiology at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. During his entire year...
...both a conservative and a progressive wing, it needs two wings to fly. Democrats let out a sigh of relief. During a debate among the presidential candidates, the preacher sounded so reasonable he was almost irrelevant. His supporters argue this is a more mature Jackson. But the skeptics wink at that. They say Jesse is singing white music to get white votes...
...Reagan Administration: the belief that some laws are little more than inconvenient pieces of paper. It is now clear that the Reagan team consciously set out to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the Boland amendment, which banned U.S. military aid to the contras. This same wink-and-nod approach to legality has often been apparent in the Administration's languid enforcement of civil rights statutes. The freewheeling business climate also owes a large debt to the President's none-too-secret hostility to many forms of economic regulation...
...first--again before I got sly--I would mumble excuses about getting fired. But now I retreat from the counter, take a moment to listen to the stereo, and return with a wink and a smile. "I gave you more," I lie, and they shuffle happily...