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Show Remains of old ship discovered at SF construction site were abandoned in San Francisco's harbor, burned or simply : SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The remains of a massive Gold Rush-era sailing ship dating to the early 1800s have been discov- junked by owners who switched their focus to mining the rich gold veins in the state's interior, according to Wolfgang Schubert, ered at the site of a large construction project in downtown San who gives historical walking tours of the San Francisco's waterFrancisco, archaeologists at the scene confirmed Tuesday, front for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. ; The ship's decaying bow peeked through mounds of earth as What's left of the ship would be removed, up to the Folsom ; workers under the direction of an archaeologist brushed away '• generations of dirt from its aging timbers. A dig crew unearthed Street property line. The rest of the ship, likely most of the stern, ithe first portions of the ship last week as they carved away dirt to would remain buried, Allan said. In a warehouse across the street from the construction site, ;;lay the foundation for a 650-unit condominium development. Angela Cook, 28, also an archaeologist for WSA, worked on :| "This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It sketches of large timber pieces already removed from the site. • makes digging in all that mud worthwhile," said James Allan, Many of the thick wooden beams bore numbers carved into !an archaeologist with Williams Self Associates overseeing the them, while others were held together by decaying iron bands. I'removal and cataloging of the ships remains. The waters of the San Francisco Bay and the nearby coastline | The city of San Francisco, the site developer and Allan's firm are a graveyard for shipwrecks from centuries past, as schooners, have a standing agreement to record the historical value of any steamers and clippers failed to properly navigate the region's submerged cultural resources they come across at such sites, I Allan said. It's not the first such find; the city's financial district rugged sea floor. But this relic is two large blocks inland, just a 1 stone's throw from the headquarters of Gap Inc. rests atop a nautical morgue, of sorts, with hundreds of ships forming a portion of the landfill that used to be prime waterOther now-inland shipwrecks serve as interesting obstacles front. for public works projects. The new Municipal Railway tunnel extension that takes baseball fans out to SBC park goes right ! Allan said the ship remains do not have anything of value in through the hull of The Rome, a ship's remains underground at it, other than history. the intersection of Market Street and the Embarcadero along the The ship was likely abandoned as Gold Rush fever overtook waterfront. the region in the mid-l800s. In the 1850s, as many as 600 ships ar-round Preschool Program pre Faculty. Academy accepts 12 s is per are currently available for it.' falL Ages: 'Friday, 8aoi- f:3Opku>&t ' ed daily e music, art, dramatic playVr« adiness, ma tli comprehension skills, and plenty ofotiii ter, and saixl ptty in a rcLixcd " h o m e ^ y c " e n y ^ i early learning. Degree. Statk/ Loul>lio<io^es. liimadetL Fire, clearances. 1 S years nRqm(JJH3iS&ffitceJJent Professional References. $6 50/ x^oiiax\Sntfdificld location. Serious inquiries only. P l e K c a l l 435-563-2766. 95 E. 400 N. 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St. John's University law professor John Barrett, noting that Roberts has named legal craftsmen such as Justices Felix Frankfurter and Robert Jackson as the Supreme Court members he most admires, suggests that he "may end up disappointing President Bush." If he remains true to the legal view embodied by the Legal Process School, Barrett said, "he'll shy from agenda-driven decision-making" and respect long-established precedents, even those, such as Roe v. Wade, of which he may disapprove. "A kind of continuity of judicial decision-making is a value in the process world," Barrett said. "Moderation, deference, continuity, caution, candor—it's not swing for the fences judging." Another crucial influence on Roberts' judicial philosophy was Henry J. Friendly, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York, for whom Roberts worked as a law clerk in 1979-1980, just after graduating from Harvard. Friendly, a Rockefeller Republican who served on the 2nd Circuit from 1959 until his death in 1986, is widely regarded as the most talented appeals court judge of his generation. He was a longtime private-sector lawyer who wrote his own rigorous opinions, as well as many influential law review articles. He regularly plucked top students from Harvard, where he had studied, to be his aides. Roberts, whose credentials as a prize-winning undergraduate majoring in history and managing editor of the Harvard Law Review matched Friendly's own, got his clerkship without even having to be interviewed, according to Richard J. Lazarus, Roberts' close friend. Friendly could be a stern taskmaster. "Sometimes the clerk thought he had something interesting to say, and sometimes the judge would disagree," said Macey, also a former Friendly clerk. Roberts loved him. His esteem is evident not only from his frequent citations of Friendly's work in his own writings, including six of his 49 opinions on the D.C. Circuit, but also from the fact that he corresponded with the judge throughout his time as a Reagan aide. In one letter, dated Nov. 4, 1981, Roberts told Friendly that it was "an exciting time to be at the Justice Department, when so much that has been taken for granted for so long is being seriously reconsidered." He continued: "You assist us down here every day through the articles and opinions that so often light the way" Friendly's views on many issues paralleled those of the Legal Process School, says Rakoff, a former Friendly clerk. The 1988 edition of the Hart & Wechsler book is dedicated to him. Friendly felt that the Warren Court's 1966 Miranda v. Arizona@ ruling, which created the "right to remain silent," was misguided. 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