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...Clinton years, Senate Republicans began a kind of permanent filibuster. "Whereas the filibusters of the past were mainly the weapon of last resort," scholars Catherine Fisk and Erwin Chemerinsky noted in 1997, "now filibusters are a part of daily life." For a while, the remaining GOP moderates cried foul and joined with Democrats to break filibusters on things like campaign finance and voter registration. But in doing so, the moderates helped doom themselves. After moderates broke a 1993 filibuster on campaign finance, GOP conservatives publicly accused them of "stabbing us in the back." Their pictures were taken off the wall...
...CLSA Investors' Forum has a rich tradition of bringing in leading global - and often American - figures, such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Preceding Palin as top-of-the-bill speakers on Monday and Tuesday were the Harvard financial historian Niall Ferguson and Robert Fisk, a veteran British correspondent in the Middle East. "Our speakers do not fit a specific formula," says Wheeler. "We just want to present our forum with newsmakers, with people who think outside the box. We want to air their virgin views...
...With his groundbreaking 1947 book From Slavery to Freedom, John Hope Franklin, 94, bridged the gap between black history and American history, documenting how blacks and whites coexisted and how widely their experiences differed. Educated at the historically black Fisk University, Franklin earned two postgraduate degrees from Harvard and in 1995 received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his contribution to African-American history...
...when a school attempts to liquidate part of its art collection, an option that it appears Brandeis is still considering, museum groups aren't the only bodies paying attention. Three years ago, Fisk University, facing a serious budget shortfall, attempted to sell two paintings from a collection donated to the school in 1949 by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. A Tennessee chancery court turned down the deal, finding that it violated the terms of O'Keeffe's bequest. When Fisk then negotiated a $30 million deal to share its entire collection with the museum being built in Bentonville...
...expected to pay for yours? If you do not work together, the automotive industries of today may follow the many other businesses that went down because of a lack of understanding and cooperation on the part of unions. Which is better - a little less, or no job? Richard Hugh Fisk, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL...