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Article: Dear Doc . . .
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 14, 1987
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WE HAD THOUGHT that, in our writings on the subject of Robert
Bork, we had succeeded in offending just about every interest group
there was. We were wrong. We print on this page today a letter from
the pharmacists of America, whom we dragged into the argument the
other day as pillars of rectitude and exemplars-so we mistakenly
believed-of the strict constructionist school of thought. They are
not amused.
You need to understand what happened. In the course of a
friendly mud wrestle with our columnist George Will, we expressed an
expectation that "on the great occasions," Judge Bork would lack the
necessary breadth of vision and "dole out justice about as a
pharmacist dispenses pills."
We ...