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They may be. The Democrats won the national congressional vote by about 8 points over Republicans in 2006--and polls suggest they have increased their lead in the generic party competition since then. It's true, as Republicans hope, that two years in the congressional majority may burden Democrats with some perceived responsibility for the country's allegedly parlous state. But the presidency and the President will still tend to dominate the news and be held accountable--and the Bush Administration is proving particularly adept at providing ever fresh instances of scandal, pseudo scandal and incompetence to remind people they...
...these resolutions arrive surprisingly late, as the league has already begun to take responsibility for the declining health of its players. When Mackey’s wife, Sylvia, wrote last May to then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue about the financial burden that can result from the rapid decline of retired players’ health, the league and the NFL Players Association responded by creating the “Number 88 Plan.” Named after John Mackey’s jersey number, the plan will pay up to $88,000 for each former player’s treatment...
...involved.”In 2002, the Faculty approved a change to Ad Board policy requiring students to submit “sufficient independent corroboration” before they could get their cases heard. The more stringent standard sparked protests among students on the grounds that it put a burden on alleged victims that could discourage them from coming forward. After a student anonymously submitted a complaint about the rule tightening, the U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation to determine whether the University was violating federal laws against sex discrimination. Eight months later, the inquiry concluded that Harvard...
...precedent from the Roe-affirming Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court took up the question of whether the ban of IDX placed an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to abortion. The Court decided that the ban did not unduly burden women because IDX is such a rare procedure (according to the Guttmacher Institute, only 0.17 percent of abortions in 2000 were IDX) and because the ban clearly did not restrict the much more widely-used (and closely substitutable) second-trimester abortion procedure, Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), in which a physician...
...Reviewers don’t see applicants’ financial aid files, so Harvard can guarantee that it’s not just cherry-picking students who can pay full-price. By contrast, other schools (including Tufts) routinely reject some applicants from low-income families because the financial aid burden would be too heavy...