A Journal of Law and Politics article was critical of the decision, criticizing the Court's claimed distinction between the speech restriction in Rust and the one on the Legal Services Corporation and contending that there was no functional difference between the two.
Story was a Renaissance man (poet, congressman, preëminent legal scholar) and claimed distinctions galore, among them his confirmation to the high court at age thirty-two!
Not that another address didn't try to claim the distinction.
It was, they explained, their only treasure and their sole claim to distinction.
It is this eloquence that is Livy's second claim to distinction.
But one player who could claim a distinction no others could was Jim Furyk.
No one else can claim that distinction, not even Che, Fidel Castro's right-hand man during the revolution.
In 2006 he was named European Footballer of the Year the first Italian so honoured since 1993 and the third defender ever to claim that distinction.
He regards Goans with Portuguese and French ancestry who claim the distinction as pretenders, even though the constitutional requirement is merely European ancestry on the father's side.
IF there is such a thing as a first family of Afro-Cuban jazz, the O'Farrill clan has a right to claim that distinction.
