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After the hot-button issues of race, crime and religion, the question of federal-state power sharing may not stir the blood. But it goes to the heart of the fundamental political struggles of the past century. The civil rights legislation of the 1960s, for instance, often used the power that Congress was granted by the Constitution "to regulate commerce ... among the several states" as the means to legitimize federal mandates on racial integration. To Rehnquist, this is a perversion of the Constitution, and he has been on a three-decade-long quest to rein in federal power. As early...
...1960s, the Committee on Higher Degrees in History of Science and Learning, established four decades earlier by Cohen’s mentor Georges Sarton, became the History of Science department. Cohen was the department’s first chair...
...story about a little-known people, the Hmong, desperately fighting for survival.That story, which appeared in TIME last month, showed the devastating effect of the military campaign launched by the communist leaders of Laos to eradicate the Hmong. The tribe's inexcusable crime? Siding with the U.S. in the 1960s during the Vietnam...
...tele-agent at a call center in Shannon, where she was recently promoted to management assistant. "Since I've got work, I feel I'm worth something," she says. "My life is ordered again, so I feel much better here than I did at home." In the 1960s and 1970s, Gastarbeiter (guest workers) poured into Germany to fill the menial jobs the Germans themselves didn't want. Now the trend is reversed, as Schulze and other Germans leave their homeland in search of work. In 2002, German labor offices arranged for more than 3,300 skilled workers to start jobs...
...arrogant announcement, in a press release and without prior consultation, that he planned to eliminate the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, create a Supreme Court and appoint his old flatmate to be Minister of Constitutional Affairs - he remains the most consistently popular Prime Minister since the 1960s. But at the risk of offering one of those gloomy prognoses he is so good at confounding, I would argue that Blair has reached the apogee of his premiership. He isn't out of fuel, but he is beginning his descent, heading toward a legacy substantially less than might...