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...Iraq are among the most salient political issues today, Schauer said that these “are all issues on which the Supreme Court has been largely invisible.” He noted that at the time of Brown v. Board of Education, the nation was preoccupied with communism and that at the time of Roe v. Wade, the nation was preoccupied with Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. “I am not claiming that the Supreme Court is not important,” Schauer said, pointing out the difference between “salience?...
...energies on trimming the Vatican bureaucracy and battling Western culture's "moral relativism." Although acknowledged as a brilliant conservative theologian, Benedict lacked the open-armed charisma of his predecessor. Moreover, what had initially propelled John Paul to the center of the world stage was his challenge to communism and its subsequent fall, a huge geopolitical event that the Pope helped precipitate with two exhilarating visits to his beloved Polish homeland. By contrast, what could Benedict do? Liberate Bavaria...
...last strongholds of communism, George W. Bush worshiped in a wooden pew at a hybrid Catholic-evangelical service--"a moment," he later called it, "to converse with God in a church here in Hanoi." Earlier, his presidential motorcade had sped beneath a hammer and sickle formed from red and yellow lightbulbs, a reminder that the world does not change as fast as he would like. The reluctant traveler dropped into the capital of his least favorite analogy as part of a sweep through Southeast Asia that allowed him to look commanding, even regal, at a time when postelection Washington...
...Communism never came at a lower price.The Dudley Co-operative Society, better known as the Co-op, was originally established in 1958 as low-cost alternative housing for the male students of Harvard. Although it is now populated by thirty-one students of all sexes, the Co-op has remained true to its inexpensive roots. Within two Victorian houses, students do all their own cooking, cleaning, and decision-making. The Co-op is set up on a points system, so that residents must fulfill a certain amount of points every two weeks by signing up to do chores like preparing...
...decade after communism's collapse, Latin American voters began to express their anger at the failure of Washington-backed capitalist reforms and free trade agreements to narrow the epic gap between rich and poor in the region. That backlash has helped Ortega, 60, who insists his politics are more moderate today - he is widely viewed as more of a cynical opportunist than a radical Marxist - to take advantage of a divisive feud inside Montealegre's Liberal Constitutionalist Party that ended up splitting its vote this year. As Ortega's poll numbers climbed, the Bush Administration went into panic mode, publicly...