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Roberts, by all appearances, is fate's darling: wealthy, handsome, at the pinnacle of his profession. Having recovered from a strange but evidently benign seizure this summer at his vacation home in Maine, the young chief no doubt sees protracted life as pretty good. (At 52, Roberts is 35 years younger than the court's oldest Justice, John Paul Stevens, and is surely the first Chief Justice whose schedule has included back-to-school night at his children's grade school.) His combination of keen intelligence and undeniable charm is such that another of his college professors, the liberal lion...
Venky does not say how much longer he will stay on before starting the search for a successor. But even if the events of the next few years are uncertain, Venky betrays no doubt about the long-term success of his school...
...score. “I just kind of saw the first guy missed, and the middle opened up, and I just tried not to get caught.”Before Luft turned a simple slant pattern into a long touchdown, the outcome was still very much in doubt. The Crimson opened the game with a dominant offensive drive—moving the ball 89 yards in 12 plays—that culminated in a 33-yard touchdown strike from Pizzotti to senior wide receiver Corey Mazza. A missed extra point left Harvard with a 6-0 lead. After several ineffective...
...doubt most denizens of the Ivory Tower laughed off Mr. Hunter’s affront to academic freedom. This very newspaper published a staff editorial parodying the bill as a simple-minded and jingoistic sop to the congressman’s far-right constituency. Academic freedom—or, more precisely, the freedom for academics to say, and host forums for others to say, the most outlandish things—has become such an unexamined prerogative that few find it necessary to defend...
...public concern the term provoked: as Sarkozy returned from New York with assurances that "there are no austerity plans" for France, Fillon found himself obliged to explain his use of "bankrupt" as glib and non-literal. A French public groggy with weeks of bad economic news seemed to doubt Fillon's stand-down, Sarkozy's promises, and either man's ability to turn things around quickly. Both suffered almost immediate dips of support in polls...