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EVERETT — The industrial tangle that once was Kimberly-Clark Corp.'s Everett mill is no longer a figurative blank slate, but a literal one as well.
A contractor wrapped up a year's worth of demolition work earlier this month, leaving most the waterfront property as flat as a parade ground.
It's a startling contrast with the brick and steel edifices that loomed there after the mill shut down for good in April 2012.
"There's still some equipment there that has to be broken up and taken away, but the actual demo work is done," Kimberly-Clark spokesman Bob Brand said Thursday.
A large, beige warehouse will remain standing at the south end of the property, unless a new owner decides to knock it down. For now, the roof is the seasonal home of hundreds of Caspian terns. There are no plans to make the birds leave, Brand said.
Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark continues to market the property, hoping a buyer will snap up all 66 acres in one piece. Brand said there's a lot of interest, but no sale to report.
About 700 workers lost jobs when the mill closed.
The City Council in January voted 6-1 to zone much of the site for water-dependent industrial development, in hopes of attracting new blue-collar jobs.
Leaders at the Port of Everett remain interested in expanding operations onto the old mill property, port spokeswoman Lisa Lefeber said. Before reaching a decision, they want to finish ongoing environmental, legal and operational studies.
Naval Station Everett, located next door, is not looking to buy the property.
The state Department of Ecology is sampling crushed debris, soil and groundwater at the site. That work will inform a future clean-up agreement with Kimberly-Clark.
An agreement isn't expected for at least a year, said Andy Kallus, the state's site manager. People will have a chance to comment on the cleanup at public hearings before any deal is finalized.
Recent samples have turned up elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in the fill, though Kimberly-Clark insists the amount is low enough to allow for industrial development.
The decontamination process on land is expected to take about three years, though it can proceed simultaneously with redevelopment. Cleanup in the East Waterway, where dioxins have been detected, is more complex and is being treated separately.
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency in May issued a warning over excessive dust being created by the demolition. It has taken no further action since the contractor stepped up efforts to control the dust clouds.
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The Red Velvet Cake at The Kingfish Cafe in Seattle is kind of a local celebrity. It's always winning those "best of" polls and getting written up in the various publications around town. And yet--amazingly--I'd never managed to taste it. But all that changed this week when I hit up Kingfish for lunch with my friend (a self-described "dedicated dessert-er") Judy.
Now, the first thing you'll notice about this cake is its size. It's huge. And I am not saying that in an annoying girlie sort of way. This cake is, like, really big. The slice pictured at the top is actually on a large dinner plate, and it took up most of it. I'm not a fan of sharing desserts, but this one definitely yielded four servings. No, really.
The first thing you'll notice upon tasting the cake is that it is chilled. For some this is a detriment, but I adore chilled cake: the flavor just seems to blossom on your tongue.
And as that flavor develops, you'll taste a variety of things. First, the sweetness of the cream cheese frosting, complemented with the slightest tang. Then sweetness again from the generous dollop of whipped cream, which is garnished with strawberries. Then the cake, which itself is not too sweet, but gently cocoa-y. Judy thought it tasted a bit dry compared to some of her previous visits. I tend to be forgiving about a slight dryness as long as the flavor is there, and the flavor certainly was there with this cake. When you get that one perfect bite with cake, cream cheese frosting, whipped cream and strawberry, it is...maybe not nirvana, but close.
The overall verdict? While sometimes hype can ruin desserts, I definitely found this one to live up to its reputation and can't wait to return to Kingfish to sample the coconut layer cake and Strawberry shortcake.
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Pharmacology is now firmly established as a world wide best-selling and highly acclaimed textbook for medical and science students. Its successful approach emphasies the mechanisms by which drugs act and relates these to the overall pharmacological effects and clinical uses. It sets out for the reader a clear route from a molecular understanding of receptors and drug actions, to the therapeutic uses of the most important groups of drugs. For the Fifth Edition the text has been completely updated, incorporating significant new information published in the last few years, while obsolete material has been removed. New agents are fully discussed as well as extensions of basic knowledge which presage further drug development. Book jacket.
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Make the vinaigrette: Using a sharp paring knife, peel 2 oranges, following the curve of the fruit; cut between membranes to remove whole segments. Place in a small bowl; set aside. Juice remaining orange into a separate small bowl or large glass measuring cup; whisk in lemon juice, vinegar, and salt. Season with pepper; set aside.
In a small skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp and browned on both sides, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer to drain on paper towels; let cool, and finely crumble.
In a large serving bowl, combine fennel, mushrooms, onion, and spinach. Add reserved orange segments and vinaigrette, and toss to combine. Divide among serving plates, and sprinkle each with crumbled bacon.


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Yesterday we brought you a C-SPAN prank caller who asked New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Wayne MacDonald whether Mitt Romney had a large penis (he does). Turns out it was not an isolated incident. Here is a compilation, via Mediaite, of C-SPAN callers—actually one caller, it sounds like—working in references to Mitt Romney's penis over the air. The last one is positively brilliant. Mitt Romney has a huge penis.


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I remember the memorial service of Ralph Harris, Lord Harris, at the church in Smith Square just over the way from the EU Kommandantur. God, he would have loved this day. He wrote:
Liberty carries with it individual responsibilities. Responsibility for yourself, and hopefully your family and as far as possible your neighbours. But it does throw responsibility onto our own shoulders. Well, that's what living means; it doesn't mean shrugging off responsibility and taking soft options.I have confidence in my land and my people and that things have not quite yet gone so far that we cannot rescue the greater part. God bless you all.


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When my 8-year-old saw I was packing his lunch in a Lock & Lock box instead of the Goodbyn today he was visibly disappointed...until he saw what he was getting to eat.
Raspberries? (his favorite!), mini saltine crackers (another new fave), and Jello too? He was doing the happy dance. :) Rounding out the box is some cheddar cheese and he took milk in his Thermos Funtainer straw cup.
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Yum! I love the little saltines I don't think I have ever seen those before
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yeah, where do you find the mini saltines? I've been making do with oyster crackers.
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I get them at Publix in the cracker aisle. They come in a box the size of a Cheez-it box, and my store stocks them right next to the oyster crackers! They are Premium brand.
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The First Epistle to the Corinthians claims no author except "the Church of God which sojourns at Rome," but the early church unanimously attributed it to Clement of Rome. This letter had a profound impact on the early church and was commonly read aloud to congregations even through the fourth century—a fact that demonstrates the letter's importance to the early believers and the endurance of the call to repentance found within its pages.
Little is known about Clement of Rome. Some believe he was the companion of Paul mentioned in Philippians 4:3. He is also listed as the fourth Pope, according to Catholic tradition, Pope Saint Clement I. While many details are uncertain, it is clear that Clement was a prominent Christian leader who worked closely with the apostles and cared deeply for the Church. As the believers experienced increasing persecution by the Roman Empire, writings like this one helped them persevere. May it do the same for you.
From the Introductory Note to the Epistle to the Corinthians:
[a.d. 30–100.] Clement was probably a Gentile and a Roman. He seems to have been at Philippi with St. Paul (a.d. 57) when that first-born of the Western churches was passing through great trials of faith. There, with holy women and others, he ministered to the apostle and to the saints. As this city was a Roman colony, we need not inquire how a Roman happened to be there. He was possibly in some public service, and it is not improbable that he had visited Corinth in those days. From the apostle, and his companion, St. Luke, he had no doubt learned the use of the Septuagint, in which his knowledge of the Greek tongue soon rendered him an adept. His copy of that version, however, does not always agree with the Received Text, as the reader will perceive.
A co-presbyter with Linus and Cletus, he succeeded them in the government of the Roman Church. I have reluctantly adopted the opinion that his Epistle was written near the close of his life, and not just after the persecution of Nero. It is not improbable that Linus and Cletus both perished in that fiery trial, and that Clement's immediate succession to their work and place occasions the chronological difficulties of the period. After the death of the apostles, for the Roman imprisonment and martyrdom of St. Peter seem historical, Clement was the natural representative of St. Paul, and even of his companion, the "apostle of the circumcision;" and naturally he wrote the Epistle in the name of the local church, when brethren looked to them for advice. St. John, no doubt, was still surviving at Patmos or in Ephesus; but the Philippians, whose intercourse with Rome is attested by the visit of Epaphroditus, looked naturally to the surviving friends of their great founder; nor was the aged apostle in the East equally accessible. All roads pointed towards the Imperial City, and started from its Milliarium Aureum. But, though Clement doubtless wrote the letter, he conceals his own name, and puts forth the brethren, who seem to have met in council, and sent a brotherly delegation (Chap. lix.). The entire absence of the spirit of Diotrephes (3 John 9), and the close accordance of the Epistle, in humility and meekness, with that of St. Peter (1 Pet. v. 1–5), are noteworthy features. The whole will be found animated with the loving and faithful spirit of St. Paul's dear Philippians, among whom the writer had learned the Gospel.
Clement fell asleep, probably soon after he despatched his letter. It is the legacy of one who reflects the apostolic age in all the beauty and evangelical truth which were the first-fruits of the Spirit's presence with the Church. He shares with others the aureole of glory attributed by St. Paul (Phil. iv. 3), "His name is in the Book of Life."
From the Introductory Notice of the original editors and translators, Drs. Roberts and Donaldson:
This Epistle was held in very great esteem by the early Church. The account given of it by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., iii. 16) is as follows: "There is one acknowledged Epistle of this Clement (whom he has just identified with the friend of St. Paul), great and admirable, which he wrote in the name of the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth, sedition having then arisen in the latter Church. We are aware that this Epistle has been publicly read in very many churches both in old times, and also in our own day." The Epistle before us thus appears to have been read in numerous churches, as being almost on a level with the canonical writings. And its place in the Alexandrian ms., immediately after the inspired books, is in harmony with the position thus assigned it in the primitive Church. There does indeed appear a great difference between it and the inspired writings in many respects, such as the fanciful use sometimes made of Old-Testament statements, the fabulous stories which are accepted by its author, and the general diffuseness and feebleness of style by which it is distinguished. But the high tone of evangelical truth which pervades it, the simple and earnest appeals which it makes to the heart and conscience, and the anxiety which its writer so constantly shows to promote the best interests of the Church of Christ, still impart an undying charm to this precious relic of later apostolic times.
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Dramatic CCTV footage has captured the moment a mother and her two children were forced to run for their lives after a manhole cover exploded in a Northampton street.
A camera outside Abington Supermarket filmed the moment an electrical fault caused the explosion in the pavement next to a cashpoint being used by the family.
The force of the blast ripped part of the newsagent's shop sign down, which narrowly avoided colliding with the head of the young boy.
Emergency services were called out to the incident shortly after 8.00 a.m. on Tuesday last week and the mother was treated by the ambulance service.
An East Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "An ambulance attended to treat a woman who had been walking in the area with two children when the cover flew into the air, but there were no serious injuries."
A spokesman for Northamptonshire Fire Service said the cause of the explosion was an electrical fault in an underground box.
A large trench was built outside Abington Supermarket to allow workers from Western Power to fix the junction box.
The sound of the explosion was heard by residents in the town centre and surrounding area.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The death of "Glee" actor Cory Monteith over the weekend comes just weeks before production begins of the fifth season of the Fox musical comedy, throwing it into disarray at a time when the creators needed to revive the waning series.
Canadian actor Monteith, 31, was not only a founding cast member, but also an integral player in promoting "Glee's" overarching message of tolerance.
Making matters more complicated for producers was his off-screen relationship with another of the show's top actresses, Lea Michele, who plays his love interest on the show.
It is unclear how their story would have proceeded in season five. And in the wake of Monteith's death in a Vancouver hotel on Saturday, representatives at Fox Broadcasting, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox, were not commenting on the future plans of the show which was scheduled to return to production later this month.
The show was renewed by Fox for two more seasons earlier this year, running through 2015. But producers for "Glee," which has been one of Fox's top shows, were facing some tough truths even before Monteith's death.
"Glee" garnered an average 10.1 million viewers according to Nielsen during its peak in 2010, but its viewership has been dwindling. Season 4, which concluded in May, dropped to the show's lowest ratings average yet, with 8.7 million viewers.
"The show's been running out of storylines and sort of reaching its end thematically ... and Cory's death is a huge loss for the show as one of the founding characters," said Ian Drew, entertainment director of Us Weekly.
Monteith had talked openly about his struggles with substance abuse. In April, he completed voluntary treatment at a rehab facility for an unspecified substance addiction.
An autopsy was conducted on Monday and results will not be available for several days.
"Glee" premiered in 2009 and instantly became a hit for Fox, with its motivational storylines, upbeat musical numbers and a diverse young cast playing a mix of popular and oddball school students who come together in a musical choir group.
Monteith became a heart-throb in his role as the jock who turned into "Glee" member Finn Hudson.
"He was actually the center of the show in terms of promoting tolerance," said TV critic David Bianculli.
"When his character began, he was the jock that just happened to sing. He ended up liking the misfits and loving them and sticking up for them and eventually teaching them."
MTV Buzzworthy editor Tamar Anitai, who monitors social media buzz on pop culture topics, said "Glee" fans known as "Gleeks" were eager to see a tribute paid to Monteith in the show and a happy ending for his and Michele's characters.
"Unfortunately you can't control what happened to Cory in real life, but the creators have control over what happens to him in the show. Fans would really like to see a happy ending, even an off-screen wedding, for Cory and Lea," Anitai said.
While "Glee" has not shied away from handling serious topics such as homosexuality, bullying and teenage pregnancy, the show never had to deal with the death of a major character. The only death in the show was the sister of Sue Sylvester, the high school coach played by actress Jane Lynch.
Previously when television shows have dealt with the death of a major star, the impact on the series has been mixed.
Actor John Ritter died mid-way through production of the ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules" in 2003. The show went into a hiatus and then incorporated the death of Ritter's character on its return. Its ratings declined and it was canceled in 2005.
Other major stars to pass away mid-series include Phil Hartman in "News Radio," Nicholas Colasanto in "Cheers" and Larry Hagman in the recently revived "Dallas." All those characters were written out of the shows and new characters replaced Hartman and Colasanto.
While Monteith's death is unlikely to force the early cancellation of "Glee," both Bianculli and Drew said it could mean an eventual end to the series.
"It could be harbinger of things to come, but honestly I don't think the show had much longer anyways," Drew said.
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- European Union Research Guides From Phil Wilkin, University of Pittsburgh
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- ILODOC Bibliographic Database of Documents and Publications of the International Labour Organization (ILO) since 1919.
- JOLIS Catalog of the Joint World Bank-International Monetary Fund Library. Includes books, journal articles (1980-present), working papers, conferences, and technical reports.
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- UNBISnet Catalog of UN publications and documents indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva, from 1979.
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A legal dispute has stalled plans by the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), Kuwait's largest commercial bank, to take over Egypt's Misr America International Bank (MAIB), reported the Bahrain Tribune. The deal, which is valued at $105 million, is part of NBK's regional expansion plan.
In a statement issued by NBK, the Kuwaiti bank stated that negotiations between the two sides had narrowed the contentious points to only a few, over which NBK felt it has no further room for maneuver. One of the points related to the inclusion in the share purchase agreement of references to the due diligence process, which the NBK legal team strongly advised against.
NBK, had earlier this year offered 531 Egyptian pounds, or $140, a share for the entire 750,000 MAIB shares. Now, because of the legal dispute, Credit Agricole Indosuez, a unit of Credit Agricole of France, is reportedly negotiating to take over MAIB at 420 pounds a share.
For NBK, the acquisition is part of a strategy for regional expansion, and despite the failure to reach a deal with MAIB, thus far, the Kuwaiti institution said it is still set entering the Egyptian market.
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The Palo Alto school board indicated Tuesday night it will approve a one-time salary bonus for district employees next month.
Under tentative agreements reached with the Palo Alto Educators and California School Employees associations, workers who were under contract during the 2011-12 school year would receive an "off-the-salary-schedule" payment equivalent to 1 percent of their base salary and stipends.
The unions have scheduled ratification votes and will report the results at the school board's Jan. 15 meeting. Pending the results, board members will then vote on the agreements.
Non-represented management and confidential/supervisory employees would also receive the 1 percent bonus.
The passage of Proposition 30 and an anticipated rise in local property tax revenues have put the district in a much better financial position. Instead of a $5.6 million structural deficit, the district now has a $4.1 million surplus. With that in mind, board members said they were in favor of rewarding employees who are working harder and longer than ever before.
"What you do as staff in our district is not the same as what you did as staff in our district five years ago," said Board President Dana Tom. "The great thing is we have results that show that. Our students' achievement is higher. We have more students completing A to G. We're closing the achievement gap. And a lot of that is in no small part due to the hard work of our staff."
The bonus will cost the district more than $1 million, according to reports prepared by Assistant Superintendent Scott Bowers.
A handful of teachers addressed the school board about the need for the bonus Tuesday night. Starting teachers currently make $51,422 per year, but can ultimately earn up to $103,836.
Corey Potter, a kindergarten teacher at Hoover Elementary School, said educators are feeling increasingly squeezed by rising apartment rents and the additional time their jobs demand.
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Q- How did the team look during spring practices? Did you work on a specific part of your game? The team looked very solid through out the spring.
FACCHINI- It gave me great confidence for our team for the upcoming season. I personally focused on my passing and defense in the spring.
Q- How have you been spending your summer?
FACCHINI- I went home to visit my family for a week but then I had to come back and go to work. Pretty much working both of my jobs, everyday. Not too fun. And training for the upcoming season of course.
Q- What did you enjoy about being a part of the NCAA National Championships Festival in
FACCHINI- It felt so amazing to make it that far. It was a very rewarding feeling being able to participate in Nationals because we had worked so hard to get there and we deserved it. I loved the whole experience in
Q- UCSD lost senior starters Nicole Courtney, Kristin Halvorsen and Briana Koche from the 2006 squad to graduation. Which returning student-athletes do you expect to have strong years in 2007?
FACCHINI- I expect Amber Ries to have another amazing season. She has always been such a strong asset to our team and she will peak this season. I believe that Sylvia Schmidt, only going to be a sophomore, is another one of our girls to look out for. She played middle last year for us and did a tremendous job. No matter where you put her on the court she will be amazing.
Q- In practice, which teammate or teammates have the toughest serve to receive?
FACCHINI- Lauren Bradley has a brutal serve. Sylvia also has a very difficult serve. I love passing serve receive, since it is one of my primary jobs, but those two girls' serves are not fun.
Q- You were on the court for UCSD's 2004 Pacific Regional loss to CSUSB and also on the court for UCSD's 2006 Pacific Regional win against the Coyotes. Did the win this past season seem especially sweet for you?
FACCHINI- Of course, but I always love beating CSUSB no matter when during the year. The 2004 loss was so hard because we fought so hard to beat Hawaii Pacific the night before and then to loose to the coyotes was dreadful. The same thing happened in 2006 with defeating CSLA the night before and then to come back and actually beat CSUSB was the best feeling ever. It was sweet revenge.
Q- What would you like to do with your Management Science major?
FACCHINI- I would like to work in high fashion, as a buyer to merchandiser. I want to work in corporate for a designer like Chanel, Prada, or something similar.
Q- There are four current student-athletes on your team that played basketball in high school. Who would win a one-on-one tournament between Amber, Rebecca, Hannah and yourself?
FACCHINI- I would for sure, just kidding. I know Tom would want me to say that I would without a doubt, you know like to talk smack on the other girls but I honestly don't know. I think probably Rebecca or myself. I have never seen any of us play so I don't know the skills of the other girls.
Q- Being from Northern California, what are your likes and dislikes of both Northern and
FACCHINI- I like that southern
Q- What do you enjoy doing off the volleyball court?
FACCHINI- Laying out by the pool or at the beach. Hanging out with my volleyball girls. Watching FRIENDS and Sex and the City. I love to shop as well... but that's of course when I have the money.
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I almost but not quite regard the time I spent reading Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy as time wasted. I'd been told that I'd find them compulsive page-turners, but in reality, the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, struck me as weirdly draggy, as the author described shopping trips, love trysts, business affairs, all pedantically spread out over a one-year cycle like a Harry Potter book. The series only started to get exciting on the second book, and I don't know what led me to even give it a chance, but it did develop into something gripping as Lisabeth Salander's own story started emerging. The third volume is just ridiculous, with its albino giant invulnerable to pain (I guess he's a kind of caricature of Swedish Nazism), but pretty good fun.
I stopped watching the Swedish adaptation of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO after it became clear that it was just going to repackage the book into an endless series of micro-scenes, none hanging around long enough to develop any dramatic meat on their bones — movie as stripped-down spine. So I was kind of wary of David Fincher's Hollywood remake, a movie which could theoretically be dismissed as redundant by anyone who can read subtitles. Would this be another bland PANIC ROOM, or worse, a BENJAMIN boring bastard BUTTON?
It's not, but it's not a FIGHT CLUB or SOCIAL NETWORK either — I'd say it's work-for-hire in which Fincher has been able to invest some real interest, not purely as a technical exercise in grafting Brad Pitt's head onto a dancing baby. Like the novel, it's a pulp potboiler with pretensions, but Fincher uses cinematic language considerably more deftly than journalist Larsson used prose, at least in translation. With its slick surfaces (dig the Ikea torture chamber with its colour-coordinated power tools!) and gliding camera moves (resisting, this time, the urge to fly ghostlike through a kettle's handle or a night club bannister), the movie is consistently pleasurable to the eye, and the soundtrack, not just Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor's buzzing, throbbing score, but the whole mix, with its fifty different kinds of wind, is a triumph — this movie wants very badly to be seen on the big screen.
It's not perfect: Fincher's tendency to include a cutaway insert every time somebody picks something up, puts it down or throws it away, is a Svankmajer-like tic than gets a bit annoying once you notice it (and arguably detracts from the power of the one key object discarded in the last scene). One the other hand, Fincher can do restraint: he includes numerous slick shots of Salander's bike slicing through Nordic nightscapes, but holds off a POV of onrushing road until the last act.
Performances: while it's nice to see Geraldine James, Steven Berkoff and Martin Jarvis (!), the actress playing Salander naturally gets the lion's share of one's attention. It's to Larsson's credit that he somehow made the quasi-autistic, kickboxing, computer hacking, physics genius, bisexual bike riding damaged goods into a vaguely convincing pulp fiction heroine. Admittedly I didn't really watch Noomi Rapace's origination of the role, but I did glance at it as Fiona was watching, and found her riveting — if the film had been able to keep up with her, it'd have been a wild ride. Fiona declares the new version to be even stronger though, so there you have it:
Mickey Rooney Rooney Mara is an even better Salander.
Daniel Craig is quickly becoming the go-to guy for those who find Clive Owen just a bit too effervescent, Liam Neeson too irksomely perky. But he works here, as Larsson's transparent self-portrait business journalist / loverboy. At least he doesn't look like a baby potato. Robin Wright makes the most of her scattered moments of screen time… the only odd thing about the acting is that the Swedish accents, already an odd choice to my taste, are somewhat inconsistent. Craig doesn't really bother with one, Rooney's is exemplary, and everybody on the TV news programmes sounds like the Swedish Chef. Also, the written matter seen in the film varies between Swedish and English, seemingly at random.
Stephen Zaillian's script is largely faithful to the book, but prunes away much excess and tightens ingenuously. "At least you're not going to prison," is a brilliant line that not only hacks away an unproductive diversion in the book, but lets us know in advance that this has been done. Intact are all the uncomfortable little references to Blomkvist/Larsson's poor physical condition, prefiguring his tragic/absurd early death right before his books saw print. And Zaillian wisely jettisons the whole discussion about suppressing the killer's identity and never revealing his victims' fates, in order to protect the Wennerstrom family business. This distasteful scene rather gave the lie to the whole book's thesis, about the wickedness of misogynists or something. We're meant to believe that the hero believes business interests are more important than letting the victims' families know what became of their daughters. We're also meant to believe he has the right to make that call, despite being in business with the Wennerstroms himself. And we're meant to believe that Salander, herself a victim of misogynist violence, would go along with it. That's one smart script edit right there — the question of publicity simply isn't mentioned, and we don't wonder about it.


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Open glory for marvellous McIlroy
Rory McIlroy had to battle all the way before taking another comprehensive step towards golfing greatness at the British Open.
As Australian pair Adam Scott and Marc Leishman shared fifth spot at Hoylake on Sunday, the 25-year-old Northern Irishman joined the elite list of golfers to have won three of the four major titles.
In repelling the challenges of Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler for his first British Open title, McIlroy joined legends Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to have achieved the feat by the age of 25.
Fully recovered from a slump that halted his progress last year, there is little to suggest McIlroy won't go on to complete the grand slam and become a legend of the sport.
"I've really found my passion again for golf," McIlroy said.
"Not that it ever dwindled, but it's what I think about when I get up in the morning.
"It's what I think about when I go to bed.
"I just want to be the best golfer that I can be. And I know if I can do that, then trophies like this are within my capability."
After eight-stroke wins at the US Open in 2011 and 2012 PGA Championship, victory at the US Masters would make him just the sixth player to win all five major titles.
"To sit here at 25 years of age and be three-quarters of the way to the career grand slam, I never dreamed of being at this point in my career so quickly," McIlroy said.
"Especially being someone from around here - The Open Championship was the one you really wanted growing up."
The Irishman closed with a 71 for a 17-under par total of 271, two strokes clear of Garcia, who closed with a 66, and Fowler with a 67.
A further two strokes back was American Jim Furyk with a final round of 65, with Scott (66) and Leishman (65) on 12-under.
It was a magnificent wire-to-wire win from McIlroy, who is just the seventh player in Open history to do so, but the day was not without its share of drama.
Starting with a whopping six-stroke lead, McIlroy confidently birdied the first, but back-to-back bogeys at five and six halved his lead as Garcia emerged from the chasing pack.
But he birdied the 10th to keep his challengers at arm's length and then stood firm down the back nine against Garcia and a late push by Fowler.
Garcia saw his chances all but vanish when he took two shots to get out of a greenside pot bunker at the par-three 15th and a superb chip by McIlroy to set up par at the 17th sealed the deal.
"It feels incredible. Today wasn't easy, a few guys were making runs at me, I needed to stay focused and concentrate," McIlroy said.
For Garcia, it meant the Spaniard remains ranked second in most major starts without a victory - his 62 trailing only Lee Westwood, who has two more.
"I'm proud of the way I played. I wanted to at least make him feel a little bit and see how he would respond," he said.
Scott finished in the top five for the third straight year and was left to rue a mid-tournament lull and bad luck with the conditions, which heavily favoured McIlroy's side of the draw over the opening two days.
"I'm disappointed but I'm going to give myself a little bit of a break and say it was such a lop-sided draw this week," Scott said.
Leishman secured his second top-five finish at a major while Australians Matt Jones (+2), Jason Day (+3), John Senden (+3) and Rhein Gibson (+10) were never in the hunt.
Tiger Woods struggled in with a 75 which left him 69th - his worst performance in his 18 Opens - while defending champion Phil Mickelson was tied 23rd at five under.
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In the weeks after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Bush v. Gore, on December 12, 2000, the mood was despondent in the chambers of the Justices on the losing side. The five-to-four ruling ended the recount of the Presidential vote in Florida and assured George W. Bush's victory in the election. "The clerks were tremendously alienated," one recalled recently. "A lot of them thought that the Court was a fraud, that the place had sacrificed its legitimacy, and that there really wasn't much point in taking the whole institution seriously anymore."
Stephen G. Breyer was among the dissenting Justices in the case. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1994, but his main residence is still a rambling clapboard house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he and his British-born wife, Joanna, bought three decades ago, early in his career as a professor at Harvard Law School. The house is on a cul-de-sac not far from Brattle Street, which has been home to the city's gentry since the American Revolution. Breyer works in the back of the house, in a sunny, glassed-in office, surrounded by paintings and leather-bound books.
One morning a few weeks ago, Breyer, who is sixty-seven, sat in his office in a worn wing chair, relating how he had tried to reassure the clerks. "I spent a long time going to lunch with quite a few of them, to calm them down," he said. "I told them, 'This, too, will pass.' " Breyer said that the pep talks were intended to help keep the young lawyers motivated, but they also reflected his fundamentally optimistic nature. "You have to assume good faith, even on the part of people with whom you disagree," he told me. "If you don't assume good faith, it makes matters personal, and it makes it harder to reach a good result and, in my experience, it normally isn't even true. People do act in good faith. The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says."
Breyer's confidence in the Supreme Court isn't shared by many Democratic lawyers and judges. After his appointment, membership on the Court remained stable for eleven years—the longest period without turnover in more than a hundred and fifty years. But now John G. Roberts, Jr., has replaced William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice, and Bush has nominated Harriet Miers, his White House counsel, to fill the seat vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor. Furthermore, Breyer's most liberal colleagues, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, are eighty-five and seventy-two years old, respectively. A period of conservative hegemony on the Court seems a real possibility. In April, the Harvard Law School professor and veteran Supreme Court litigator Laurence H. Tribe announced that he would not complete a new edition of his mammoth treatise on constitutional law, which was originally published in 1978, because so many precedents that had once seemed settled now appear at risk of being overruled. "I've suspended work on a revision because, in area after area, we find ourselves at a fork in the road . . . and because conflict over basic constitutional premises is today at a fever pitch," Tribe wrote in a letter to Breyer, an old friend and former colleague.
In September, Breyer published "Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution," a manifesto for a progressive revival in American jurisprudence. The book, which is a hundred and sixty-one pages long, was inspired in part by Breyer's disdain for the method of constitutional interpretation championed by his principal ideological rivals on the Court, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Their approach, known as originalism or textualism, holds that the words of the Constitution mean only what the framers understood by them; the document's sense does not evolve over time. Constitutional scholars on both the left and the right have criticized originalism for being overly literal and doctrinaire, but Breyer is the first Justice to attempt to elaborate simultaneously a rebuttal and an alternative.
In "Active Liberty," Breyer argues that the framers never intended for future generations of jurists to resolve contemporary controversies by guessing how the framers themselves would have resolved them. Instead, their goal was to promote what Breyer, quoting the nineteenth-century French political writer Benjamin Constant, calls "active and constant participation in collective power"—in other words, "active liberty." The Constitution not only sets limits on official power, Breyer asserts; it insures the right of ordinary citizens to shape the workings of government. "There is this coherent view of the Constitution that has taken hold, called originalism, textualism, a kind of literalism, which is a well worked-out theory," Breyer told me. "And I think people are tempted to say that there is a coherent theory, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, there are simply judges who go around deciding each case as they think appropriate. And that isn't so. I think there is a more traditional approach, and it's coherent, consistent, and specific."
Several days after his book was published, Breyer visited a classroom at the New York University School of Law, where he took questions from students and engaged in a characteristic rhetorical technique: interviewing himself. Supreme Court Justices are known for their public reticence, but Breyer appears frequently before academic groups, from grade schools to law schools, and he plainly enjoys the give-and-take. Tall, thin, and nearly bald, he radiates nervous energy, rubbing his head as he puzzles over questions, and, in sessions at the Supreme Court, rocking in his leather chair—sometimes pitching so far forward that his chin almost rests on the bench. Breyer stays limber by bicycling around Cambridge and Georgetown, where he also has a home. (In 1993, when Breyer was a federal appeals-court judge in Boston, he had what is certainly the most famous bicycle accident in Supreme Court history. A few days before an interview with President Clinton for the vacancy on the Court created by Byron White's resignation, Breyer crashed while trying to avoid a pedestrian near his home in Cambridge, breaking a rib and puncturing a lung. He was in pain during the meeting with the President, and it didn't go well. Breyer was appointed the following year, after Harry Blackmun retired.)
"We get very open questions in constitutional law," Breyer said at N.Y.U. "So how do I react to them? Well, of course, you look at the text, the cases, the history, and all those things, but you can't escape your background, your own experiences. And I start with Lowell High School, Class of 1955. That doesn't mean a lot to you, but it means a lot to me."
Breyer mentions his public high school, in San Francisco, in nearly every speech. "In San Francisco in the nineteen-fifties, it was a wide-open time," he told me. "It's true that there were lots of people, mostly black people, who were still excluded from opportunities, but for the rest of us there was a sense of possibility that we've never seen before or since. You had a great mixing of classes. I was a hasher at Camp Mather, in the Sierras, which was run by the city and county of San Francisco. Anyone could go. You had a mix of the families of firemen, policemen, and doctors and lawyers. They all felt an obligation to be part of the community and to contribute to the community."
For forty years, Breyer's father worked as a lawyer for the San Francisco school system, eventually serving as a chief intermediary between the system's administrators and local politicians. His mother was a homemaker who volunteered with the Democratic Party and the League of Women Voters. Breyer's younger brother, Chuck, became a criminal-defense lawyer in San Francisco and, in 1997, was named a federal district judge by President Clinton. (Breyer recuses himself in appeals of his brother's rulings.)
"The message I'm trying to provide is that there is more to the Constitution than a Fourth of July speech," Breyer went on. "It was a serious objective of the framers that people participate in the political process. If people don't participate, the country can't work." In his book, he cites several recent Supreme Court opinions to illustrate his thesis. In the 2003 case McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, the Court had to assess the constitutionality of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law, and consider whether caps on campaign contributions, and restrictions on advertising, constituted infringements on the right to free speech, which is guaranteed by the First Amendment. Breyer (along with a majority of his colleagues) upheld most of the law's provisions. "To understand the First Amendment as seeking in significant part to protect active liberty, 'participatory self-government,' is to understand it as protecting more than the individual's modern freedom," he writes. "It is to understand the Amendment as seeking to facilitate a conversation among ordinary citizens that will encourage their informed participation in the electoral process."
In drafting the campaign-finance legislation, Congress had weighed the need for fair elections against the right to free speech, and fashioned a compromise. Paying deference to legislative judgments is a touchstone of Breyer's philosophy. "The need to make room for democratic decision-making argues for judicial modesty in constitutional decision-making, a form of judicial restraint," he writes. Neal Katyal, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who clerked for Breyer in the mid-nineties, says, "Every single day you spend with him, you hear about how the courts should trust the political branches. He trusts Congress a lot more than the left did in the sixties and seventies, and a lot more than the right does today." Indeed, according to an analysis by Paul Gewirtz, a professor at Yale Law School, and his student Chad Golder, of Supreme Court decisions between 1994 and 2005 addressing the constitutionality of sixty-four congressional provisions, Breyer voted to strike down laws twenty-eight per cent of the time—less often than any other Justice. Clarence Thomas voted to overrule Congress sixty-six per cent of the time, more than any other Justice.
Breyer's accommodating attitude toward Congress represents a departure from liberal judicial tradition. "William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had a vision of the Constitution as having these big ideals of equality and liberty which would require renovation of many social practices, so that they would require the criminal-justice system, or welfare, or education all be changed in significant ways to conform to their aspirations," Cass Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and an admirer of Breyer's work, says. "You can't see any of that in Breyer. There is nothing in Breyer to show that he thinks there are many areas where the Constitution is properly used to renovate American society, no indication that he wants to move society or constitutional law in novel directions. Today, it's the conservatives who want to use the law to make big changes in American society."
For more than fifty years, starting with the New Deal, the Supreme Court gave Congress considerable leeway to pass laws, under the authority granted to it by the Constitution to regulate interstate commerce. In the nineteen-nineties, however, the Court—led by the conservative Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas—began to challenge congressional statutes in an effort to limit the power of the federal government. In 1995, in United States v. Lopez, a five-Justice majority ruled that Congress lacked the authority to pass a federal law banning the possession of guns in a school zone. On similar grounds, in 2000, the Court struck down, in another five-to-four vote, a provision of the federal Violence Against Women Act which gave victims of sex-related violence the right to sue their attackers in federal court.
Breyer dissented in both cases, arguing, in his opinion in Lopez, that "the statute falls well within the scope of the commerce power as this Court has understood that power over the last half-century." The cases exemplify the conflict between originalism and the more pragmatic approach advocated by Breyer, and the outcome of this conflict has enormous implications for American government. Scalia and Thomas would like to see the federal government's role in regulating citizens' lives reduced to the modest one that they believe the framers envisaged. As Thomas put it in his concurring opinion in Lopez, "The Founding Fathers confirmed that most areas of life (even many matters that would have substantial effects on commerce) would remain outside the reach of the Federal Government." Breyer believes that, whenever possible, the Court should stay out of Congress's way.
When I visited Breyer in Cambridge, there was a tidy pile of children's toys on the living-room floor, the residue of a recent visit by his oldest grandchild. "My daughter told me she didn't want me to be buying toys all the time for my grandchildren, and I said fine," Breyer said. "So these are my toys," he added, with the triumphant smile of a lawyer deploying a winning argument. "I bought them for myself."
Breyer's optimism on the bench may be partly congenital, but he owes his faith in Congress to his experience as a young lawyer on the Senate Judiciary Committee staff. After graduating from Stanford, in 1959, he studied philosophy and economics at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship, and earned a law degree at Harvard, where he made the law review. From 1964 to 1965, he clerked for Justice Arthur Goldberg. The liberal Warren Court was near its apogee, and Breyer worked on Griswold v. Connecticut, the case in which the Justices overturned the state's ban on contraception and began articulating the right to privacy which led, eight years later, to Roe v. Wade. However, Breyer gravitated to antitrust and administrative law, and after a brief stint as an attorney in the antitrust division of the Justice Department he was hired to teach at Harvard.
While Breyer was working in the capital, he met and married Joanna Hare, an assistant in the Washington office of the London Sunday Times. Hare comes from an aristocratic British family; her father, John Hare, was the First Viscount Blakenham, a peer and statesman who served as a leader of the Tory Party in the nineteen-fifties and sixties. She later became a psychologist, and now treats young cancer patients at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston. One of the few modern works of art in the Breyers' home in Cambridge is a striking painting of their three children, Chloe, Nell, and Michael, who are now adults.
"That's Chloe, my oldest daughter," Breyer said as we stood in front of the painting. "She's an Episcopal priest, of all things. And I'm Jewish! So you can see we are very ecumenical around here." (Nell is a video artist; Michael is an aspiring software entrepreneur.)
In the mid-seventies, Breyer began commuting from Harvard to Washington to work as a counsel for the Judiciary Committee, then chaired by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. "When Steve came to work for me, he was advised that this was a disaster in terms of a career," Kennedy told me. "Everyone told him that if he wanted experience in government he should go to the executive branch. You don't really get your hands dirty in the executive branch. I wish I could walk into the Harvard Faculty Club with him today and see what they think of their advice now." When Kennedy was preparing to challenge Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic Presidential nomination, Breyer encouraged him to embrace a cause that moderated the Senator's image as a doctrinaire liberal: deregulation—of the airlines, trucking, and the natural-gas industry. "Steve started talking in the most common-sense way about getting the federal government out of the way of economic competition, and we held a series of very successful hearings on the subject," Kennedy said.
Breyer's support for deregulation, and his genial demeanor, earned him the admiration of several Republicans on the committee. "He was a really decent and honorable person," Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican, told me. "He worked with both sides and tried to bring everyone together." Eventually, Breyer became Kennedy's chief counsel on the committee, and under their direction it achieved considerable productivity and ideological harmony. Breyer left the committee in 1980, his childhood faith in civic participation intact. "It leads a person who works there to see that most politicians are trying to achieve results that will benefit the people who elected them," Breyer said of his experience as a congressional staffer. "Contrary to what people who haven't worked there might expect, they really are mostly trying to do the right thing."
Deference to Congress, a technocrat's belief in governmental solutions, and a taste for compromise have all figured in Breyer's jurisprudence. His book, however, provides few guidelines for applying his theory of active liberty to actual cases. Even if one accepts his assertion that the Constitution was designed to guarantee broad participation in the democratic process, the notion doesn't help lawyers and judges who are trying to adjudicate cases involving some of the most contested issues in constitutional law—race, privacy, and religion. No controversy better illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of Breyer's approach than the two Ten Commandments cases, from earlier this year.
In separate cases, civil-liberties advocates challenged, as violations of the establishment clause of the First Amendment, two public displays of the Commandments, one in a pair of Kentucky courthouses, the other on the grounds of the Texas state capitol, in Austin. Four Justices (Stevens, O'Connor, David Souter, and Ginsburg) rejected both states' displays as violations of the Constitution's separation of church and state; four others (Rehnquist, Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, and Thomas) approved both states' displays. Only Breyer, the swing vote in both cases, saw a difference between the displays: he rejected the Commandments in the Kentucky courthouses and upheld the one in the Texas park.
In his opinion concurring in the judgment in the Texas case, Van Orden v. Perry, Breyer noted that "there was no single mechanical formula that can accurately draw the constitutional line in every case," and he proceeded to compare the history of the displays. The Texas Commandments, which are carved into a granite monument, had been donated to the state by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a private civic (and primarily secular) organization, in 1961. Most important, Breyer argued, no one had complained about the structure, which is situated among sixteen other monuments and twenty-one historical markers, for decades. "Those forty years suggest more strongly than can any set of formulaic tests that few individuals, whatever their system of beliefs, are likely to have understood the monument as amounting, in any significantly detrimental way, to a government effort to favor a particular religious sect," Breyer wrote. By contrast, the displays in the Kentucky case, McCreary County v. A.C.L.U., had been placed on the walls of the courthouses by local officials, accompanied in one case by a Christian minister, in 1999, and had immediately become objects of controversy. In his opinion in the Texas case, Breyer wrote, "the short (and stormy) history of the [Kentucky] courthouse Commandments' displays demonstrates the substantially religious objectives of those who mounted them."
Together, Breyer's decisions suggest an ad-hoc attempt at political compromise as much as the application of legal principles. His opinions in the cases amount to a demand that politicians stop erecting provocative religious monuments, with the understanding that old ones can stay. Removing uncontroversial displays like the one in Texas could, he wrote, "create the very kind of religiously based divisiveness that the Establishment Clause seeks to avoid." Applying Breyer's ruling to cases involving similar issues isn't easy. In a decision last month excluding the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, Lawrence K. Karlton, a federal judge in Sacramento, wrote that Breyer's method in the Commandments cases was "utterly standardless . . . leaving those of us who work in the vineyard without guidance."
Breyer smiled when I told him about Judge Karlton's complaint. "That's a problem for the person in question," he said. "What kind of guidance? There is a tremendous temptation to believe that a bright-line rule is guidance and the absence of a rule is not guidance, particularly in an area of the law that is subtle. But there is also common-law guidance, which is by example. The best example of how to behave is by example. It's true with children. It's one thing to tell them how to behave, but it's another to live your life in such a way that you show them. You teach by example. You don't go too far too fast. Sandra understood this."
In conversation, Breyer often invokes Sandra Day O'Connor, with whom he had a close relationship. A former Arizona state senator, she shared Breyer's inclination to defer to the legislative process. Mostly, though, Breyer and O'Connor shared a judicial disposition—pragmatic, improvisational—that distinguished them from their more rule-based colleagues, including Scalia and Ginsburg. Breyer likes to win cases, and O'Connor, the Court's swing vote, was a means to that end.
"I once complimented him on a dissent, and he held up four fingers with a wistful smile," Akhil Amar, a professor at Yale Law School, who clerked for Breyer on the federal Court of Appeals in the mid-eighties, says. "He only got four votes. Nino Scalia would rather be right than in the majority, but Breyer by temperament is someone who is going to find the center. He cultivated O'Connor in the way that Scalia drove her away."
In his book, Breyer pays extended tribute to O'Connor's opinion in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, upholding the affirmative-action policy at the University of Michigan Law School. He discounts Ginsburg's traditional liberal rationale for affirmative action—that it's a remedy for past discrimination—in favor of O'Connor's view that preferences for minorities in university admissions guarantee diverse workplaces and leadership. Without affirmative action, Breyer writes, "too many individuals of all races would lack experience with a racially diverse educational environment helpful for their later effective participation in today's diverse civil society."
"Well, I was very sorry to see Justice O'Connor leave," Breyer told me in his study in Cambridge. "But life goes on."
The walls in Breyer's chambers at the Supreme Court are lined with hundreds of old books, remnants of a collection that belonged to his late uncle, Leo Roberts, an eccentric philosopher and freelance academic who haunted used-book sales. "He'd get me out there at five in the morning with him, to get first crack at them," Breyer told me. "He rarely spent more than a dollar for a book." On a wall beside the shelves are photographs of three previous occupants of his seat: Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg, and Harry Blackmun. For many years, it was known as the Court's "Jewish seat" (until it went to Blackmun, a Methodist). "If I could have told my grandfather that I was going to be on the Supreme Court, and I was going to be the second Jewish person on at the same time"—Ginsburg is also Jewish—"he definitely would have said I was lying," Breyer said.
Breyer has cordial relationships with all his colleagues on the Court, including his ideological adversaries. In "Active Liberty," he attacks originalism, asserting that there is no way of knowing precisely what the framers meant by such phrases as "freedom of speech" or "due process of law," much less how they would have applied those terms today. Scalia and Thomas's approach, he concludes, "has a tendency to undermine the Constitution's efforts to create a framework for democratic government—a government that, while protecting basic individual liberties, permits citizens to govern themselves, and to govern themselves effectively."
Yet Breyer sits next to Thomas on the bench, and they often whisper and laugh together during oral arguments. "Lots of times his colleagues will throw barbs at him in opinions, but he'll never say a bad word about them, in public or private," Neal Katyal says.
Breyer said, "It's a congenial and professional Court. In our conference, there are very contentious issues, and I've never heard a voice raised in anger in eleven years. And I have not heard people make slighting remarks about others, not even as a joke. I remember once, we were having lunch at one point and I said, 'Isn't it interesting, we've just come out of a conference where there were two five-to-four decisions. And the personnel were on different sides. And yet here we are having lunch, a pretty pleasant lunch at a time we are just absolutely at loggerheads.' "
To some extent, Breyer owes his judicial career to his reputation for bipartisanship. Kennedy told me that after he withdrew from the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination, in 1980, he recommended Breyer to President Carter, telling him, "Steve is someone very, very special, and I would like to see him nominated to the First Circuit." After Carter lost to Ronald Reagan, Kennedy pleaded with Strom Thurmond, then the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, to allow the Senate to confirm Breyer.
"Kennedy went to Thurmond after Reagan had won the election and asked him to give Breyer a vote," Hatch recalled. "And Strom said, 'No, we won the election.' So Kennedy came to me and said, 'Orrin, can you help me? I'd like to get Steve on the First Circuit.' And I said, 'Sure.' So I went to Strom and I said, 'This man had been a wonderful chief counsel for this committee. He's a member of the family, and we ought to send him through.' And Strom said, 'You think?' He was the last judge confirmed before Carter left office."
Breyer's respect for the political process does not mean that he exempts legislation from judicial scrutiny. He has sided with other liberals in several high-profile civil-liberties controversies, and in these cases he has overruled the decisions of political majorities. In a 2002 dissent in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, he argued that a voucher system established by the state of Ohio to subsidize the education of children, including some in parochial schools, violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment, because, he wrote, the subsidy to religion invited "social conflict."
In 2000, in what may be his best-known opinion since joining the Court, Breyer ruled for a five-Justice majority in Stenberg v. Carhart that Nebraska's law banning late-term (or partial-birth) abortions violated the Constitution. "All those who perform abortion procedures using that method must fear prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment," Breyer wrote. "The result is an undue burden upon a woman's right to make an abortion decision. We must consequently find the statute unconstitutional."
So Breyer is a majoritarian—sometimes. "What is mysterious and really unexplained is what is the relationship between his embrace of democracy in his book and the vigorous enforcement, in which Justice Breyer has sometimes enthusiastically participated, of individual rights against majority decisions," says Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School and a friend of Breyer's, who was a former Solicitor General in the Reagan Administration and frequently disagrees with his decisions. "It's not helpful to say that the dominant interpretive principle is to reinforce majority rule when a number of the most controversial constitutional doctrines, like abortion, are exactly designed to limit and counteract majority rule."
Breyer concedes that a judicial approach based on "active liberty" will not yield solutions to every constitutional debate. "Respecting the democratic process does not mean you abdicate your role of enforcing the limits in the Constitution, whether in the Bill of Rights or in separation of powers," he said. "We have to decide when these limits are exceeded. People tend to forget that when the limits are not exceeded. Almost everything the government does is within these limits. We have to give guidance. There is no absolute guidance, no absolute rules."
Nevertheless, the widespread dismay among Republicans that Harriet Miers, President Bush's choice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, has not publicly embraced a conservative agenda suggests that there is a desire by some in Bush's party for absolute rules. In this context, Breyer's rosy outlook on the future of the Court could seem naïve. Indeed, his opinion in the partial-birth-abortion case may be one of the first casualties of a new conservative majority on the Court. The five-Justice majority in Stenberg included O'Connor; her prospective replacement, Miers, has publicly endorsed anti-abortion positions. A case challenging a new federal ban on partial-birth abortion is almost certain to come before the Justices this term.
"Your opinions are not your children," Breyer told me. "What they are is your best effort in one case. The next one will come along, and you'll do your best. You'll learn from the past. [Justice] Goldberg taught me never to look backward. People ask all the time whether I was sorry that I was in the minority in Bush v. Gore. I say, 'Of course I was sorry!' I'm always sorry when I don't have a majority. But, if I started moping about it, I can hear Goldberg saying, 'What are you talking about, feeling sorry for yourself? There's no basis for feeling sorry for yourself. Get down and do it. Keep going. Maybe they didn't agree yesterday. Maybe they'll agree tomorrow.'
"One of the great things about our Court is that there are two rules which I love—not written-down rules, but ways of behaving," he went on. One involves the Justices' conference, at which they discuss their decisions and announce their votes in order of seniority. "The first rule, which I love because it works in my interest, is that nobody at conference speaks twice until everybody has spoken once. Great rule. Helps preserve the peace, and helps keep the junior Justice happy." Breyer's enthusiasm for the Justices' conference is understandable. Here, if nowhere else, his ideal of active liberty—a forum in which individual rights are protected and everyone participates—is realized.
The second rule, he said, is that "tomorrow is another day. No dependency of a decision of one case on another: You join me, I join you. None of that. None of that, zero. The coalitions float. Each one, each case, is a new day. Each day is a new day."
A couple of weeks later, as Breyer escorted me from his chambers, I asked him whether he knew the new Chief Justice, John Roberts. "I don't know him," he said, before adding quickly, "But I know it'll be fine." ♦


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