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...Taken in bulk, The Federalist can be heavy going for the lay reader, with its sometimes intricate marshaling of closely reasoned arguments. Madison rated it "admissible as a School book if any will be that goes so much into detail." But the brilliance of the best individual essays remains undiminished. Madison's own masterly "Federalist No. 10," for example, took issue with the received wisdom of his day that the Government would be threatened by the mutually hostile factions with which a sprawling America appeared dangerously overloaded. By their very number and variety, Madison argued, the factions would support...
...Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, an avid defender of workers, has replaced the decidedly less sympathetic Utah Republican Orrin Hatch as chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Democrats who are friendly to or received campaign money from the labor movement are in positions to help along the bulk of the business-related legislation. Boasts AFL-CIO Executive Howard Samuel: "We control the committees and the agenda on the floor...
...says Cara L. Vaughn, public information manager for student health services at the University of California at Berkeley. But some of the information seems to have sunk in, as condom sales at the UHS pharmacy rose this year, with much of the increase coming in bulk packages of three dozen condoms...
...stronger than ever, much to The Crimson's chagrin. It all but disowned President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, vigorously opposing the New Deal and endorsing Roosevelt's Republican opponent. As the following two editorials indicate, Harvard (which concurred with The Crimson's judgement by a narrow majority) and the bulk of the nation were poles apart politically...
...show is a record of 15 years of work with one model at a depth of detail that would be utterly fascinating with a greater artist -- a Manet, a Degas or even a Winslow Homer -- but that at Wyeth's level of achievement seems almost tiresome. The bulk of the show is pencil sketches and watercolors, grouped around a dozen or so finished images in drybrush and tempera. To study an artist's sketches is to go behind the scenes of his talent, to see how the mechanisms of his pictorial thought work; one sees each twist in the evolution...