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...Saturday, Dec. 10thChristmas on the Common. The Radcliffe Choral Society presents their annual Christmas concert. First Church Congregational. 8 p.m. $16 general admission, $8 students. (CNC)“Such Sweet Thunder.” The Harvard Jazz Band performs the music of Duke Ellington with guest artist Don Byron. Lowell Lecture Hall. 8 p.m. $10 general admission, $7 students. (CNC)Comedy For A Cause Stand-Up Comedy Night. The Harvard Concert Commission brings you a night of stand-up comedy to benefit the victims of the South Asian earthquake. Comics scheduled to perform include Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Brennan, Mitch...
PREDICTOR William Safire, New York Times PREDICTION ''Replacements for retiring Justices Blackmun, White and Stevens will be Richard Posner, Brooksley Born and Floyd Abrams.'' WHAT HAPPENED Only Justice Byron White retired. He was replaced by Ruth Ginsburg...
...deference" to the states, Segal said in an e-mail. "Most justices are ideological: they vote to strike either liberal laws or conservative laws, but not both." But when Segal and Spaeth looked at cases decided between 1986 and 1998, they found that "only Rehnquist and [the late Justice Byron] White voted to uphold a majority of liberal and a majority of conservative laws...
...Lincoln in 1862, when settlers were given 160-acre tracts to encourage building out the frontier with farms and ranches. Today there is no central authority; the programs are initiated and run locally. Yet Washington has taken note. In March, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota reintroduced a bill that would forgive college debts, grant tax credits for a home purchase and fund small-business start-ups in counties that have lost at least 10% of their residents over the past 20 years. In Hagel's home state, 56 of 93 counties...
...Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Named to the Court in 1993 by Bill Clinton, Ginsburg replaced Byron White. Ginsburg is well known for her commitment to striking down laws that treat men and women differently; Clinton called her "the Thurgood Marshall of gender equity law." She shares Justice Breyer's conviction that law should serve the individual. Most likely to side with Justices Souter, Stevens and Breyer...