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| Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:00:00 EST Rehnquist death leaves second vacancy |
| William H. Rehnquist, 80, a Milwaukee paper salesman's son who rose to chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and strove to reshape laws of the land in his conservative Federalist image, died at his Virginia home late Saturday after more than three decades on the nation's highest court–the last 19 as its top judge. He had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer last October and though he completed the court term that ended in June, his frail health declined precipitously over the past week. |
| Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:00:00 EST Bush faces rare opportunity to appoint second justice |
| WASHINGTON–President Bush on Sunday called the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist a man of "character and dedication" and said he would work swiftly to fill the two openings at the Supreme Court. |
| Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Uncalm after the storm |
| America has been overwhelmed by the heartbreaking images of death and destruction from New Orleans and Mississippi. There is shock and awe at seeing a wonderfully cosmopolitan city like New Orleans that once grew great on the commerce of the Mississippi River, and where jazz was born, sinking beneath the waters--and the unimaginable fact that in the America of the 21st century a major city could be so completely overwhelmed by nature. As Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said of the death toll from 9/11, it is "more than any of us can bear." Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city there. It brings to mind the comments of the 20th-century historian Will Durant: "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." |
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