O'Connor, a minimalist who prefers small steps and compromise positions, seems to be a special disappointment to Scalia.
Most of the conference was taken up with activists and members of the shadow cabinet working in groups to thrash out compromise positions in multiple policy areas.
"Divided leadership makes it much harder to pursue compromise positions on sensitive issues, either in domestic or foreign policy," said Kenneth Lieberthal, a former Clinton administration China specialist who is now at the University of Michigan.
In fact, the administration has been fractured into two camps, with a few officials straddling compromise positions that Mr. Bush will have to explore in the next five days.
The official said the Palestinians' mood had soured after Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel asserted that he would not feel bound by compromise positions reached at the summit if it ended in failure.
The Chief does have extra power within the Court, in that he assigns which Justices will write the opinions and runs the conference in which cases are discussed, and you could imagine Scalia withholding cases from O'Connor because she favors the kind of incremental solutions and compromise positions and balancing tests that he, in his absolutism, hates.
We believe potential compromise positions are a possibility, even if assumed to be unlikely.
For articles advocating compromise positions, see DeRose 2004 and Steup 2004.
Second, inclusive and effective decision-making about sustainable development necessitates free and open exchange of information, collective learning about regional environment and development, and the identification of compromise positions.
Some adopted compromise positions.
