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...include the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, which held that slaves and even the free descendants of slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal courts. Rehnquist fancies himself a champion of states' rights and judicial federalism, yet after the 2000 election he pulled together a bare majority of Justices who in a 54 ruling usurped Florida's voting laws and handed the presidency to George W. Bush. The doctrine of states' rights apparently ends where Rehnquist's personal political philosophy begins. SEAN ARMAGH Columbus, Ohio...
...Bare Is Better...
...civil liberties include the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, which held that slaves and even the free descendants of slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. Rehnquist fancies himself a champion of states' rights and judicial federalism, yet in 2000 he pulled together a bare majority of Justices who in a 5-4 ruling usurped Florida's election laws and handed the presidency to George W. Bush. The doctrine of states' rights apparently ends where Rehnquist's personal political philosophy begins. Sean Armagh Columbus...
...screaming, wearing a kafiyya, then arriving in Cairo, making a cameo at a local protest, with bullhorn in my other hand, burning a few flags and finally sheesha-smoking the night away has not been realized. Instead, I unglamorously touched down in an airplane, took a cab to my bare hostel room and have spent most nights studying Arabic. I have not been on a horse, but have been on a stationary, probably sedated camel, with camera in hand. I have not raised any trouble, or burned any flags, but I did witness a demonstration where one guy was really...
...running flash points in Indian politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should be built at a site in Ayodhya where a mosque once stood. The Telegraph newspaper in Calcutta ran the front-page headline hard as diamond, soft as flowers over a picture of a bare-chested Vajpayee depicted as Ram, a Hindu god. One of Vajpayee's detractors on the Hindu right admits, "It is accepted by one and all that Vajpayee is a total win-win man today...