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...prevent public broadcasting stations from speaking out. The court threw out a federal law that bars "editorializing" by educational television and radio stations receiving federal money. Justice Brennan, a court liberal writing for an unusual 5-to-4 majority that included Conservatives Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor, ruled that the federal ban is "directed at a form of speech-namely, the expression of editorial opinion-that lies at the heart of First Amendment protection." Dissenting Justice Stevens found that the prohibition was a reasonable effort to prevent the Government's fiscal power over stations from influencing...
...other purposes, such as land reform, as determined by its legislature. "The people of Hawaii have attempted, much as the settlers of the original 13 colonies did, to reduce the perceived social and economic evils of a land oligopoly traceable to their monarchs," wrote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
...sure if there'd be a show without Ted." Shales says. "He's as important to 'Nightline' as Carroll O'Connor was to 'All in the Family,' and the similarities don't end there." Shales refers not to Archie Bunker's bigotry but rather to O'Connor's ego, which, he says, became legendary in television circles. "Ted has an enormous ego It's impossible not to at that level...
Among the five Republican stars, Kassebaum, O'Connor and Armstrong came closest to leading conventional homemakers' lives during the 1950s and '60s. Heckler and Dole have always held paying jobs, the former member of Congress from 1967 until last year, the latter a fast- track Washington bureaucrat under every President since Kennedy. The résumé's of all the women overlap in several places. All but Heckler grew up well-to-do in the South or West; all but Armstrong have postgraduate degrees. Dole was a Democrat in the 1960s; Armstrong campaigned for Harry...
Americans are willing to endure much in the hope of becoming physicians. Jeanne O'Connor of Staten Island, N.Y., remembers the day she landed at her school on Montserrat: "Mosquitoes were biting me from all sides. When I got to my dorm there was a tarantula in the closet and a lizard in the bathtub. I sat on my bed and cried." Overcoming these and even greater obstacles, many students attending the better Caribbean schools do manage to emerge with adequate medical educations. Nearly 80% of the students at St. George's University School of Medicine on Grenada...