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...Federalist Society, Washington. Part of the conservative legal network that in part is the offspring of the law-and-economics movement at the University of Chicago Law School. Provides contacts for "movement conservative" law students, professors and lawyers. Membership is considered a boost to appointive positions, including the federal bench. One of a number of headhunting advocacy tanks looking for the next generation of conservative leadership...
...chancellor Stuart Stevens of the University of Cape Town (a government run, almost exclusively white university) are direct beneficiaries of the current distribution of power in South Africa. There are many white South Africans who oppose apartheid but do not support Black majority rule. Their party is the Progressive Federalist Party, which contains the owners of the main gold mines. Such people, and some Americans, really oppose apartheid not I think because they oppose white control, but rather because apartheid makes the system of white domination unstable...
...faction I understand a number of citizens...who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse...to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." James Madison in The Federalist...
...organization's approach as "wrongheaded and harmful" and urged it to "shut down the operation before it goes any further." Writing in Contentions, her committee's bulletin, Decter argued that in the classroom, accuracy is not the issue. "There is no accurate way," she noted, "to teach the Federalist Papers . . . Bias is something that anyone with opinions can be accused of. How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions...
Finley said that Kirkland, who served as president from 1810-28, commissioned architect Charles Bulfinch to build University Hall in the Federalist, neoclassical style. According to "Three Centuries of Harvard," a college history book by Samuel Eliot Morison, Kirkland called the Yard an "unkempt sheep commons," and completed other improvement projects including the construction of Holworthy Hall...