Breyer said, ''that certainly looks to text, certainly looks to history, certainly looks to tradition and precedent -- but that also emphasizes heavily the purpose of this particular provision and the consequences as viewed in terms of the purposes, is more likely to get at what this law is about, what area of human life it is seeking to affect and how. That's what I think the essence of law is. |
[As Capt. Richard Davenport, a cocky, self-assured lawyer, he is called upon to investigate the murder of a black sergeant amid resistance from the base's white commanding officers.] Davenport has to stay one step ahead of the white people so he'll be seen as equal, ... and he has all this pressure from the African-American community because he's the one who broke through; he represents the race. |
[Austin aides have their focus groups too, and they claim the vice president's aggressiveness only rankles, reminding voters of the ugly noises from the past four or five years in Washington, the showdowns and shutdowns. The less partisan voters, says the campaign, like Bush's happy soundings of cooperation.] Among swing voters, they don't care about the party labels, ... They want things solved. |
[Boston College is] not a [pushover] at all. Potentially, we could have been that team [this season], you never know. This conference is very tough. I know their players, and our players know their players. This is a team that was probably just as good as we were in the fall. There won't be an easy point played. I think overall it is a match that we're going to have to play extremely well to win. |
Alan Clark (1952-) |
[Few small e-commerce software makers have been able to turn a profit in the small-business market. Bock says that with an ISP's sales channel, those small companies can change their fortunes.] The tools makers are lining up to dance with the ISPs, ... Tool vendors have to have an elegant way to interface with potential clients: supporting a tool through an ISP is like a hot knife through butter. |
[If the PS3 (set for release in spring 2006) is truly more powerful than this machine, as has been rumored, well, playing games on that unit will be like controlling your friends in the backyard.] The biggest and the best names in publishing are committed to the success of Xbox 360, and looking at the titles we have announced, we are very excited, ... The high-definition era of gaming starts now. |
[In many states, the number, size, gender, and location of the harvested animal, and the hunter's effort to take the animal is only collected from a small percentage of hunters.] But here in Nevada, ... 95% of big game hunters provide accurate and timely information on the results of their hunts so that biologists and interested groups are able to make informed harvest management recommendations. |
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[Nonetheless, sitting on the high court is a lifetime appointment, and Roberts' relative youth means he could be in a position to significantly reshape Supreme jurisprudence. Critics say that it's imperative that the public knows as much as possible about how he would interpret and uphold the Constitution.] Roberts is 50, ... He could be affecting our lives with his rulings for the next 35 years. |
[Rather than waiting for inspiration, the artist started to find inspiration just by continually working her canvases. As her confidence grew, the panic she'd experienced when something wasn't perfect, abated.] It's like being cold in winter and you can't imagine that you'll ever be hot, or hot in summer, when you don't believe you'll ever be cold, ... Now I say, 'It's OK. You know this feeling.' |
[Red Hat President Robert Young said the Intel/Netscape investment wasn't needed to support the company's retail effort but to gain credibility with corporate customers.] The key thing for growth of Linux in the commercial space is working with winners like Netscape, ... If we can prove ourselves with Netscape, other application vendors who haven't ported their software to Linux yet will join in. |
[Ridiculed as the league's biggest airhead during his early years with the Washington Redskins, Frerotte is now being described--at least in a happy locker room after an impressive performance--as a wise and wizened professor of offensive football. Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael recalled the first day he met Frerotte this spring.] He had, ... that older, mentor thing about him. That presence. |
Tony Blair (1953-) |
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