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...collection. Without hurry or pressure, I would casually spend the day losing myself in paintings, snapping flash-less pictures, and buying overpriced relics at the gift shop. I would leave for last one painting—the painting I had studied in so many different classes because of its broad significance, the painting known for its artistic innovation as well as its social conscience, the painting that would climax not only my first day in Madrid but possibly my entire trip—Picasso’s “Guernica...
...believe that this type of undergraduate education yields graduates who will make a broad impact on society through leadership in engineering, commerce, education, government, and whatever else they set their mind to doing,” he wrote in an e-mail...
Roberts, after all, has been a federal appeals judge for only a little more than two years, on a court that hears primarily arcane cases concerning administrative and regulatory law rather than the broad constitutional issues before the Supreme Court. And in his roles as a hired corporate gun or a political appointee, as he and many other lawyers see it, he was simply representing the interests of his clients or his boss, including those of the President. That may well be true. But what is at stake is a lifetime appointment as the replacement for the court...
...being misapplied; it does not authorize Congress to pass laws protecting, he wrote, "a hapless toad that, for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California." Legal experts wonder if he might use this reasoning to attack other laws, not just environmental laws, that are based on broad readings of the commerce clause...
...other side of the river's broad reach, Kawa's mother sits in mourning under his house, while relatives deny the allegations that he sold skulls. But finally one admits that some of Kawa's kinfolk are nervous, fearing not illness but criminal prosecution and the stigma of being involved in a trade that has already led to two deaths. "Everybody who shared the money out of the skulls is losing their life, too,'' says one of the villagers...