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...independently corroborated and the fact that major media outlets largely gave it little credence sadly demonstrates the waning influence of the great scholar. 6. Erin Brockovich baloney. The School of Public Health (SPH) may have damaged its reputation when it gave its most prestigious award to the famed environmental activist, despite an outcry from scientists that her famous lawsuits were not backed by sound research. In acknowledging the controversy surrounding her receipt, SPH Dean Barry R. Bloom basically dismissed the “casual uncertainty” issues and focused on Brockovich’s supposedly moral aims, which?...
...when he was elected two years ago. To that end he has added more moderates to his inner circle?most notably staff chief Susan Kennedy, an iconoclastic Democrat who supports abortion rights but shares the Governor's hostility to government regulation. And he has demoted partisans like liberal environmental activist Terry Tamminen and Kennedy's predecessor, conservative Republican Patricia Clarey. He is courting?or, some suggest, co-opting? Democrats on pet issues like raising the minimum wage and freezing tuition at state colleges. But at the same time, he followed the politically safe precedent?no California Governor had commuted...
...national television this week, Senators and viewers will be asking, Is this the man of the memos, whose paper trail includes provocative passages against abortion and in favor of Executive power that have given Democrats and liberal interest groups the ammunition to portray him as a dangerous activist? Or would the high court be getting the more opaque and reserved scholar described by friends and co-workers and suggested by some of his later work...
Many Democrats say that while Alito may be mild mannered, his views reflect a conservative activist befitting the "Scalito" moniker that liberals have given him in order to tie him to Supreme Court firebrand Antonin Scalia. White House aides want Alito prepared for a barrage of hostile queries, so he continued last week with practice sessions in a Justice Department conference room and a White House auditorium. Former Solicitor General Ted Olson stopped in to fire questions aimed at sharpening the nominee for surprises. White House officials believe Alito's understatement will play well in such a heated atmosphere. Asked...
...first novel, in 1984, suddenly sees the tranquil world around him go up in flames in the wake of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Hours before, he was just another student and aspiring author, hovering over his notebook in a part of Delhi called Defence Colony; overnight, he becomes an activist of sorts, going out into the streets to shout Gandhian slogans with the other everyday citizens trying to quell the riots...