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Off the docket, the justices are involved in an indecorously public dispute over ethics, after news reports have questioned close ties between wealthy conservative figures and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Grown men sometimes find the emblazoned obscenities of life too much for them, and leave this world indecorously, so the fact that a sixteen-year-old boy is overwhelmed should not be surprising.

“M.B.N. has been such a great friend and partner of the U.S., we would not want to see him treated inelegantly or indecorously,” the senior American official said.

The fight continued — indecorously, some said — even during Mr. Thompson’s funeral on Saturday.

The message is as indecorously blatant and as urgent today as it was three decades ago.