However, if there was any need for a reminder about what he meant to the Knicks from an on-court perspective, Fields did his best to clear that up on Wednesday night.
To put the limits of Lebanon's special court in perspective, imagine that the Yugoslav tribunal looked only into the assassination of Serbian prime minister Djindjić while ignoring cases like Srebrenica and Foca, where thousands of civilians had been killed, tortured and raped.
On such matters, the trial court's perspective and knowledge is entitled to no deference from this court.
He wasn't being cynical so much as historical — and, if the consensus on the Court's perspective on Shelby holds true, prescient.
Drexler may be correct that Sotomayor will help broaden the Court's perspective and make it more solicitous of women's concerns.
It was an intimidatingly large leap forward that proved to be an organizational challenge: "Having an open invitation show with self-selected works, while courting divergent perspectives and output, could lead to a complete shit show (at one point, a working sub-title for the exhibition)," Dodge jokes.
So it is a good time to step back and consider the court from the perspective not of ideology but biography.
Betty Cooper Wallerstein, co-chairwoman of the Coalition to Protect Residential Zoning, an umbrella group that opposes the project, tried to put the court decision in perspective.
Locke would, like Gregoire, provide the Court a Western perspective and would also, of course, be the first American of Asian background to be a sitting Justice.
From a larger policy perspective, when courts justifiably refuse to broaden the reach of federal statutes, Congress must step in to state the law more clearly.
