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...measure, the term that just ended was hardly a disaster for liberals. On the contrary, liberals won several important victories--not only the Guantánamo and child-rape cases but also a series of employment-discrimination cases in which the court sided with workers rather than employers, by broad, bipartisan majorities...
...beginning of the 19th century, to live in the same boarding house and discuss cases over glasses of his excellent Madeira. (Once, in an unfortunate burst of temperance, when the Justices voted to drink only when it rained, Marshall looked out the window and noted, "Such is the broad extent of our jurisdiction that by the doctrine of chances it must be raining somewhere...
...rises in income and housing prices - were more widely dispersed than one might expect. Though college-educated whites accounted for 20% of the total income gain in gentrifying neighborhoods, black householders with high school degrees contributed even more: 33% of the neighborhood's total rise. In other words, a broad demographic of people in the neighborhood benefited financially. According to the study's findings, only one group - black residents who never finished high school - saw their income grow at a slower rate than predicted. But the study also suggests that these residents weren't moving out of their neighborhoods...
...deceased during a trial. After much debate, the Supreme Court overturned a U.S. Court of Appeals decision and ruled that the buttons were permissible. "There is a tendency to assume that any emotion is necessarily distorting," Berman explains, but as the Supreme Court case showed, "that's overly broad." Emotional displays may simply enhance the issue at hand, not obscure or manipulate...
What the 21st century should look like is still a contested question, but the contest is increasingly going to forms that are not broad, flat, pale and gray. In a world being radically reconfigured by Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, Ando represents the continuing relevance of a more reductive strain of 20th century Modernism. When the Fort Worth museum was commissioned, Ando, now 66, had built widely in Japan but not much outside. By the time it opened six years ago, he was firmly located on the international short list of architects that everybody was after...