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...last thing the President wants is a brawl with the Judiciary Committee over confirmation. The committee's chemistry is already explosive enough, with such liberals as chairman Joseph Biden and Ted Kennedy squaring off against conservatives Orrin Hatch of Utah and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on issues like the crime and civil rights bills. "The Democrats aren't beating us anywhere right now, and we want to keep it that way," says a senior White House official. "The President has them beaten in approval ratings. When he vetoes a bill, we're able to sustain it. When he wants...
...election has already sparked spirited exchanges on the streets. In Moscow last week, a young man got into a verbal brawl after he asserted that Yeltsin had been "dishonest" because he had backed down in public on private deals he had made with Gorbachev...
Sound fair? It is -- and it isn't. "Within-group scoring," sometimes known as race norming, has been used for a decade by the U.S. Labor Department as a form of affirmative action. This spring it became part of a partisan brawl as Republicans and Democrats squared off over the latest update of civil rights legislation. Last week House Democrats agreed to an explicit ban on race norming as part of an effort to salvage their version of the civil rights bill. But the congressional din threatens to drown out an important debate over the value of testing...
...November 1989, Cambridge police arrested three men following a brawl at the Pi Eta Club's entrance. None of the three were Harvard students. A club official said that "no one from the club really got involved...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., a 19-year-old moviegoer was killed in an exchange of more than 100 shots, some from an automatic weapon, after he and another youth left a showing of New Jack City to finish an argument. In Las Vegas a brawl involving about 60 people, including members of the Crips and Bloods gangs, broke out at the 9:40 p.m. showing; another flared when the movie was repeated at 11:30; 18 people were arrested. Such eruptions have prompted theaters to post extra guards. At least 10 houses have pulled the movie...