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...weeks that she might step down to spend more time with her husband John, who she has told friends is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Once she announced her decision, activist groups who had been focused on the world-after-Rehnquist regeared for a higher-stakes battle over her crucial seat. Those groups have been readying their cell phones and BlackBerrys for years. In an atmosphere of already heightened political polarization, when the U.S. is divided over an increasingly unpopular war and led by a President whose approval ratings have been notching down for months, they are promising to spend...
...decisions affirming the right of a locality to seize private property or forbidding the display of the Ten Commandments on government property--even if another ruling on the same day allowed such displays in a different context--only made it plainer to them, and to liberals too, how crucial the court remains. Says Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, an influential group of social conservatives: "Clearly these issues are being decided by a slim majority...
Under Saddam, many of the country’s top intellectuals had fled the country, and Khailanym said that their return is crucial to the rejuvenation of Iraqi universities. She said that since 1980, approximately 30,000 Iraqi academics had fled the country...
...couple allegedly shipped more than 20 boxes of sensitive medical materials to Texas, where they were recovered in June, 2000. The stolen materials were crucial to research involving calcineurin, an enzyme that causes the immune system to reject transplanted organs. Immediately before leaving Harvard, Zhu and Kimbara had found genes that block calcineurin—a lucrative discovery for drug development...
Those new historical tools can be easily abused, allowing writers with a fixed idea to go fish out evidence to support their claim. To do his research, Tripp took 80-some volumes of crucial Lincoln material, shipped them off to India to be digitized and put the results into a database. Then he did his research the new-fashioned way, by typing terms in a search bar. Presumably, a search for various body parts yielded the delicious bit that Lincoln's New Salem, Ill., friend William Greene considered his thighs "as perfect as a human being's could...