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Then Schmidt retreats from us, lost in a cloth that Begley throws over him, and what began as a sharp examination of public restraint and private release dwindles into a self-pity which seems not merely Schmidt's, but Begley's.
Dworkin wishes to replace the moral teleology of law with obeisance to cultural prejudices, informing us that unjust acts may be countenanced when popular ideology asserts them to be "personal" and hence putatively free of legal restraint.
He was an early convert to judicial restraint, concluding that federal courts should butt out and let elected governments do their job.
Clinton haters hate Clinton for not having the dignity and sense of restraint that should attach to his office.
But before we plunge headlong into spring--starting more seeds than we could ever hope to plant, scarfing up little wonders at nurseries because we simply must have them--let us stop to consider the lesson of restraint to be learned from the garden in winter.