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...after she was prevented from practicing law in Illinois because she was a woman, Myra Bradwell went to the U.S. Supreme Court. That tribunal turned her away, with Justice Joseph P. Bradley harrumphing, "The paramount mission and destiny of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator." The law of the land has changed some in the 111 years since, and last week a Supreme Court that includes the first female Justice endorsed the use of a new weapon by women seeking full equality in the legal profession...
...President had a scare Friday afternoon when, during a checkup, doctors found a tiny colonic polyp. It proved benign. Indeed, said a physician who examined him, Reagan is in "very exceptional" shape as the general election campaign approaches. The frenzied, fretful, fractious Democrats might well envy that tiptop appraisal...
...school was the most determinedly American institution the alumni had ever known. Founded by the Episcopal Church in 1909, it had not accepted Filipino students before World War II, and no Filipinos were on its faculty. Americans may have prided themselves on a benign colonial policy, but not that benign. Almost all the 100 students used to be Americans, the sons and daughters of Army and Navy officers, Government officials and businessmen who had some how landed in the Philippines...
Mondale's aides acknowledged their candidate's benign neglect of Ohio and Indiana. But they pointed to Mondale's win in North Carolina, where Hart made the mistake of vaguely threatening to cut off federal price supports for tobacco. In Maryland, where Hart campaigned for barely half an hour, Mondale carried even the suburbs, home of Hart's usually loyal cadre of young, upwardly mobile professionals, the Yumpies. Indeed, when the counting was over in last week's primaries, Mondale had actually won 42 more delegates than Hart, 184 to 142. (Hart overwhelmingly...
...successful six-day visit, Reagan was convinced that his Chinese hosts really were catching the "free-market spirit." So optimistic was he about the prospects for friendship and trade that in one ad lib he referred to the People's Republic as "socalled Communist China," a remarkably benign description coming from a once unrelenting cold warrior who used to call the P.R.C. "Red China." The turnabout is perhaps more Reagan's than China's, but there was little doubt that the governments of both nations have, in Reagan's words, "reached a new level of understanding...