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Much like the election of 2000, the contentious race of 1800 would be a gradually unfolding drama. As the campaign was just getting under way, Jefferson wrote to a Virginian in France, William Short, that Americans would acquiesce to the will of the majority. Jefferson probably exaggerated his confidence in...
Adams' high-profile disappointment mirrors a larger-scale feminist frustration. The percentage of female seminary students has exploded in the past 35 years, from 4.7% in 1972 to 31% (or roughly 10,470 women) in 2003, and it continues to accelerate 1 to 2 percentage points a year. Yet women...
Bell's complaint breaks an informal seven-year truce between parties on members of Congress filing such actions against one another, an agreement dating back to the nasty battle that led to the unseating of House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Now the gloves may come off. One DeLay ally has threatened...
A majority of the faculty of Harvard Law School file a friend-of-the court brief to federal appellate judges arguing that the Pentagon misinterpreted the 1996 Soloman Amendment. The Pentagon claims that under the statute, the secretary of defense can restrict federal funding for schools that limit access to...
The referendum bill, which allowed students to vote on whether they supported the hike and whether the fee should be made mandatory, underwent heavy amendment, including a measure that reduced the originally proposed $100 fee to $75.