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...degrees to the right. Both Alito and Anthony Kennedy, who has emerged as the new swing Justice, are more conservative than O'Connor was on some key issues that came before the Justices this term. As a result, the court tacked right in decisions on issues ranging from partial-birth abortion and employment discrimination to, in recent days, campaign finance...
...hair - has been massaged by virtually every generation since the 1815-70 Risorgimento established the modern country we know today. Mussolini cited Garibaldi's nationalist determination as the precursor of fascism, while leftists have claimed him for his battles over equality and anticlericalism. Now, 200 years after his birth on July 4, 1807, Garibaldi is again being dusted off by local councils and national politicians as the essence of heroic italianit...
...Constitution's meaning and an equally clear sense of how they want the law to change. They write or join dissenting or concurring opinions - like the one in this case, or the one that calls for reversing Roe v. Wade in April's decision upholding the federal partial birth abortion ban, or the one by Thomas that opposes free-speech rights for students in the Bong Hits 4 Jesus case - and all of them advocate a fundamental shift to the right in constitutional law, even when it means overturning precedent...
Julia Roberts gives birth to her third child, a boy named Henry Daniel Moder. Celeb watcher DEFAMER apologizes for the relative lack of media attention leading up to the birth: "We've been so consumed with Angelina Jolie's every orphan-collecting whim that we've allowed ourselves to fall tragically out of touch with the Most Powerful Womb in Hollywood." SCORE...
Robert Kennedy's crusade against the lesser-known Marcello, whose Mob territory embraced Texas, was almost as intense. Born in Tunisia of Sicilian parents who moved to the U.S. in 1910, Marcello later used a phony Guatemalan birth registration to avoid deportation to Italy. Fully aware that Marcello was not a Guatemalan, Kennedy in 1961 nevertheless had Immigration agents hustle him aboard a 78-seat jet as its lone passenger and deposit him in Guatemala City. Marcello and his American lawyer were later flown to El Salvador, where soldiers dumped the two expensively dressed men in the mountains. Marcello claimed...