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Some observers believe that if the Democrats win the presidency in 2008, the clash between a more conservative Supreme Court and a more liberal White House and Congress might reach historic proportions. "You could have significant conflict between the court and the political branches, one that we probably haven't seen since the 1930s," Samuel Issacharoff of the New York University School of Law has suggested. Yet throughout American history, the President and Congress have gotten angry at the court only when it frustrated the will of a large national majority. In many cases in which the Roberts Court...
...more than just a Briton, a Muslim or a Pakistani. At a concert in New Jersey once, an American fan, taking him for a terrorist, challenges Manzoor to name his favorite Springsteen songs. As he starts to reel off the numbers that speak to him - one after another - the clash of civilizations suddenly begins to sound remote, and we're in the midst of a mass sing-along in which white and black and "other" hardly make any sense...
...Harvard, that crossroads historically has been the site of a culture clash...
...part of it was from a clash with the prevailing culture of college itself. As your study group sits in a dining hall, slogging through the sixth of eight absurd quantum chemistry problems at 4 o’clock on a Friday morning—trying to remember how to complete the square within an exponent inside an integrand so you can solve the damned integral already—the two most depressing sights are, one, the inevitably ravaged state of brain break, and two, tipsy classmates coming back from lord-knows-where in search of the same non-existent...
...then-No. 2 Crimson hosted squash powerhouse Trinity, nine-time winners of the national title. In the top-two showdown, the intensity was high on both sides, and with the contest being played at the Murr Center, Harvard supporters came out in droves. This season’s clash developed much differently than last year’s 8-1 decision in favor of the Bantams. Harvard proved it had improved, keeping the match close throughout. The match seesawed back and forth for the entire night. Seniors Siddharth Suchde and Ilan Oren won their matches in the top two positions...