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...Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito got last week when his 1985 application for a job in the Reagan Justice Department surfaced in Washington. In it, Alito espoused the idea that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." With a solid majority of Americans in favor of legalized abortion, Alito's opponents thought they had finally found their cudgel. But the Senate Democrats, at least, did not seem prepared yet to use it bluntly: for Alito's nomination they have settled on a strategy that doesn't take abortion head on. "The tactic is going...
...political backlash" among crucial suburban voters. As for a general attack on Alito, the numbers seem to break the Democrats' way. Pollster Garin, in a survey conducted before the 1985 memo came out, found that only 43% of those polled said they thought the Senate should vote in favor of Alito, compared to 59% for Roberts at the same point in his nomination process...
...regulation, the game changed when, with 13:58 left in the fourth quarter, sophomore Steve Williams read Yale quarterback Jeff Mroz perfectly, picking off his pass and running it 18 yards in for a touchdown. Williams’ score closed the gap to 21-16 in favor of the Bulldogs and came on the heels of O’Hagan fumbling the ball on the Yale 12-yard line...
...history section, was I amidst a dozen Tanzanians clamoring over a single economics textbook.Surely, I’m not ready to declare my past few years wasted quite yet. But in a time where the academy demurs more and more a “big picture” in favor of endless specialization, the possibility that our education might be irrelevant is a worthy consideration.Somehow, today’s scholars have contented themselves to exist with it. Or perhaps a hidden malaise explains why all these Africa scholars are presently in a state of diminished sobriety, beboping their cares away...
...There's no question that the multilateral system governing global trade remains inherently unfair, tilted in favor of the U.S. and the E.U., which have long set the agenda. Failure to correct the flaws means that the politics of trade will just get nastier. The global economy stands to lose out, too. It's widely assumed that new tariff cuts and the removal of trade barriers would substantially boost growth. Estimates of the size of that boost vary widely, from labor union economists, who say it would be minimal, to the University of Michigan, which figures a reduction of trade...