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...season when Hollywood gets literate. Since the Oscar deadline coincides with New Year's Eve and a bookish pedigree is a sure way to get Academy members' attention, studios turn to acclaimed novels for their holiday fodder. But there's a risk involved. Ask any reader who has seen the movie version of a favorite novel, and the answer will usually be, "The book was better...
...chip away at or perhaps even overturn the right to an abortion; roll back civil rights and liberties, especially in the realms of race and gender discrimination and crime and punishment; and permit religion to encroach into the secular arena. In a moment of surprising candor, Alito provided new fodder for his critics last week, telling Senators that the high court may have gone too far in recent years in keeping the church out of public life...
Since its institution in 1981, the Salient has certainly done a lot of that. During the editorship of Gladden J. Pappin ’04, gay rights advocacy provided constant fodder for the magazine’s criticisms. In a Dec. 2002 letter to the editor, Pappin praised a 1920 secret court that disciplined homosexual students. The Harvard administrators’ actions had not been public until an article in Fifteen Minutes reported on them that December...
...rights and workers' rights. "It's sad that [Bush] felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America," Schumer said. "The President seems to want to hunker down in his bunker." Alito is an ardent conservative who will be hard to caricature, but will provide plenty of fodder for an ideological showdown. As a sign of the potential battle ahead, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to ask Alito about abortion. The new justice could become the tie-breaking vote on abortion restrictions...
...referendum been proposed in Massachusetts that seeks to dissolve the rights of a minority group that had been previously guaranteed. In fact, the Massachusetts state constitution explicitly prohibits referenda concerning religious organizations for precisely this reason: the correct belief that the rights of minorities should not be fodder for public consumption and political hackery, but for well-reasoned debate in a controlled setting...