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The constitutional law of free speech, says Fiss, was shaped by the earlier type of liberalism--he calls it "libertarian"--which regarded free speech as a right of individual self-expression; it is now used to foil efforts to regulate speech in the name of the newer liberal value, equality.
With the crusty, rural, reactionary Helms as a foil, Weld seems a moderate, cosmopolitan thinking man, above petty politics.
Even if the feat could be pulled off under laboratory conditions, real-world attackers would load their missiles with decoy warheads to foil or complicate interdiction.
He would have had a foil even better than Ken Starr--even without the Bisek affair in the public eye.
But it's mainly there as a foil to an evening dress by Geoffrey Beene (1968) with a football number in glittering beading.