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...court heads toward the conclusion of its latest term, it has finally completed its decades-long transformation from the liberal bastion of former Chief Justice Earl Warren into an aggressively conservative body -- one that seems poised to alter some of the major rulings of the past. To fellow conservatives, the right-wing majority may look like the cavalry galloping to the rescue. Battered liberals are more apt to see them as the ravaging horsemen of the Apocalypse. The only question is how far they will go in undoing the liberal legacy in such areas as church-state relations, individual liberties...
...marketplace for attention, the other commands it at gunpoint. Case closed. Those who are satisfied with such commonsense certainties, though, should probably halt their progress through Mao II, which bristles with unsettled and unsettling impressions: "Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb- makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness...
While the government considers how to best alter the indirect cost regulations, Scott, Fields and R. John Collier, Presley professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, are concerned that the government has already changed the "ground rules" with respect to indirect costs--that the government is not maintaining "its side of the bargain...
...officials speculate that Rudenstine will feel most comfortable with a structure similar to that of Princeton University--where he was once provost. There, the provost works closely with the president and serves as a deputy president or alter...
Tsongas, whose speech preceded a candlelight vigil, said the United States' continued friendly trade relations with China diminishes any hope of forcing Chinese leaders to alter their incessant mistreatment of Chinese citizens...