competitors with new ideas will not succeed. It is a world of stasis and
increasingly concentrated stagnation. It is the Soviet Union under
Brezhnev.
+<indexterm><primary>Gates, Bill</primary></indexterm>
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Thus, while it is understandable for industries threatened with new
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who had advised us early on about a First Amendment strategy; and
finally, former solicitor general Charles Fried.
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Fried was a special victory for our side. Every other former solicitor
while he had argued many positions in the Supreme Court that I
personally disagreed with, his joining the cause was a vote of
confidence in our argument.
+<indexterm><primary>Fried, Charles</primary></indexterm>
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The government, in defending the statute, had its collection of
skeptic. He had served in the Reagan Justice Department with Solicitor
General Charles Fried. He had argued many cases before the Supreme
Court. And in his review of the moot, he let his concern speak:
+<indexterm><primary>Fried, Charles</primary></indexterm>
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"I'm just afraid that unless they really see the harm, they won't be
Would it have been different if I had argued it differently? Would it
have been different if Don Ayer had argued it? Or Charles Fried? Or
Kathleen Sullivan?
+<indexterm><primary>Fried, Charles</primary></indexterm>
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My friends huddled around me to insist it would not. The Court
objectives of the property system. That is, on the contrary, just what
a property system is supposed to be about: giving individuals the
right to decide what to do with their property.
+<indexterm><primary>Gates, Bill</primary></indexterm>
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When Ms. Boland says that there is something wrong with a meeting