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After inviting me into his domain, Kedlaya drops onto the cushion of his wooden chair, casually draping his arm around the chair. He is barefoot, wearing a T-shirt and jeans. A pair of large round dark-rimmed glasses sits on his face, right below the broad expanse of his forehead. Short curly dark hair hugs tightly to his bulbous head. The quintessential mathematician...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Breaking the Curve | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...Among the dissenting judges, Antonin Scalia wrote for himself and Clarence Thomas that the ruling is "an unjustified incursion into the province of state governments." Ruth Bader Ginsburg supported that view in a seperate dissent: "The court, I am convinced, unnecessarily and unwisely ventures into territory within the states' domain, and does so in the face of reform measures recently adopted or currently under consideration in legislative arenas." Congress and the Supreme Court have been grappling with limiting punitive damages on a federal level unsuccessfully for years. Some states already have caps on punitive damages awards and others even disallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court Curtails Punitive Damages | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...instant book, once the domain of hack publishers like Dove Books and disreputable semi-authors like Rosa Lopez, is taken to a new level of respectability with In the Name of Sorrow and Hope. Despite the rapidity of its printing (the epilogue is dated March 1996, and it was published on April 8) and its pamphlet length (180 undersized pages), the occasion on which this book seeks to capitalize is considerably more serious than the O.J. trial: it is the memoir of Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, the same one who spoke so movingly at his memorial service in November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sentimental 'Sorrow' | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

Harvard's Klan can help reverse these pernicious affirmative action policies and return Harvard to its glorious heyday, when it was the proud domain of white men. The Harvard KKK's plan to eventually relocate all black students to universities in Africa is sure to win widespread support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD.ORG.KKK | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

...outside the world of the play and therefore cannot move an audience into fear and pity. They reveal little of the universal human condition that is at the heart of the play. This production of Hamlet gets lost in its choices, moving the play's action in to the domain of the banal...

Author: By Marc R. Talusan, | Title: Scott's Tame Prince Hamlet Has Wit But Lacks Passion | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

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