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Diana L. Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society, said after the meeting that Wisse’s remarks “don’t make much of an impression on the Faculty” because of their “extreme?? nature...
...because he is a conservative ideologue. We fear that, given the chance, he would overturn basic legal protections and reshape the scope of the U.S. government. Several of Alito’s past opinions lead us to this conclusion.The most incendiary—although not most extreme??example of Alito’s radicalism is his dissent in the 1991 abortion rights case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. He supported a law that mandated that wives receive their husbands’ permission to seek abortions. This law would have subjected battered women to further abuse from...
...Paul who could play soccer with the stars and run like the wind, but didn’t mind going on a gentle bike-ride through Cambridge with Danny and Danny’s less-than-jockish sister. He even helped me convince my brother that “extreme?? biking exploits in the woods were less preferable than actually sticking to something that resembled a trail...
Instead of poverty, however, Abadie discovered a distinct relationship between “the levels of political freedom a nation affords and the severity of terrorism.” Those nations at either extreme??North Korean on the totalitarian side and the United States on the democratic side—had very few instances of terrorism, whereas those nations in the middle, nations that were neither totally free nor totally state-run, had the highest rates of occurrence. It should come as little surprise that the Middle East falls into the middle category of nations where terrorist activity...
Steven J. Kelman ’70, who directed federal procurement policy from 1993 to 1997 and is now Weatherhead professor of public management at the Kennedy School of Government, said that the Bush administration is “much more extreme?? about restricting civil servants’ conversations with Congress and the media than its predecessors...