He was willing to appeal to American Jews and Israel supporters in Congress to heighten political pressure on Mr. Clinton not to press Israel to go farther than he judged wise.
Sensibly, however, most juries cleared the hacks and when they didn't the judges were wise, and liberal, enough not to lock them up.
Judge not, lest ye be judged, a wise man said; the implication is unfavorable for those of us who imagine taking a seat behind Bach in heaven's concert hall.
"I'm pleased we had a judge as wise and sensitive and responsive as Judge Dorsey," he said.
However, the judge Lady Wise ruled in favour of the government's proposals, saying they were "not unlawful".
"If you can judge a wise man by the colour of his skin," sings Tyler, "then mister you're a better man than I".
But the enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans.
When the Republican senators doggedly returned to the judge's "wise Latina" remarks, Mr. Leahy and his Democratic colleagues, with discipline not always seen in the past, steered the subject back to her long, rather mainstream judicial record.
In 1998, the year that the BEE business really took off, there were 111 transactions worth a total of 21 billion rand (then worth $3.8 billion).Few blacks had been able to accumulate capital under apartheid, so stakes were typically sold at a discount and financed by loans, often from the companies themselves, many of which judged it wise to woo influential black shareholders.
"Naturally, my brothers judged it wise to keep this information from me.
