Word: extended
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...that was merely the finale of a term in which the court's conservatives tightened the screws on affirmative action, said "enough" to a famous effort to achieve school desegregation, approved suspicionless drug testing for high school athletes and forbade Congress to extend power over the states. What made all the difference is that Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, two perennial swing votes, swung regularly to the right. There they met up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the slash-and-burn conservatives. That the term also saw the further consolidation of a fairly...
Since the Depression, Congress has used the so-called Commerce Clause to extend its authority into ever more areas once reserved to the states, including not only such matters as shipping rates and wages but also less clearly "economic" concerns like racial discrimination. The Commerce Clause, for instance, is the constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids discrimination in public accommodations and employment. Much of the vast 20th century expansion of federal power over the states can be traced...
...directed and choreographed Chronicle as well. Yet in the novella's passage from page to stage, something of its fateful weight has been forfeited. For one thing, Garcia Marquez's signature tone of sagacious melancholy is necessarily lost. For another, Bob Telson's music fails to deepen or extend the characters. In musical theater the audience longs to feel that it knows someone much better after listening to him or her sing for a couple of minutes. But Telson's priorities seem to be elsewhere...
...federal politicians are pushing hardest to extend family caps everywhere. Missouri Representative Jim Talent is honest enough to say, "We may have to revisit the scholarly underpinnings of our argument, but on the other hand, everyone has a study, right?" Florida Representative Clay Shaw, who pushed the family cap through the House, simply ignores the Rutgers findings: "We have found through our studies that there are kids out there who are having children because of the cash they're going to receive...
...name of the children and their parents that lawmakers are racing to fight cyberporn. The first blow was struck by Senators Exon and Coats, who earlier this year introduced revisions to an existing law called the Communications Decency Act. The idea was to extend regulations written to govern the dial-a-porn industry into the computer networks. The bill proposed to outlaw obscene material and impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years on anyone who knowingly makes "indecent" material available to children under...