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The Burger Court was a disappointment to conservatives. The six Justices appointed by three Republican Presidents from 1969 to 1981 failed to undo the extraordinary record of judicial activism compiled by the liberal Warren Court of the '60s.* Most galling to the right, the Burger Court gave women a constitutional...
One of the basic premises of James and his fellow sabermetricians (from the acronym for the Society for American Baseball Research) is that one-run strategies (including sacrifice bunts and stolen bases) are usually pointless. A corollary of this premise is that major league managers, with the exception of Earl...
In part, the urge to hit back is driven by the new assertiveness of Reagan's foreign policy. The Administration takes pride in having put muscle into American policy; a series of successes from Grenada to the Philippines has shown that the U.S. can pull off military and diplomatic coups...
The book contends that the Soviets have deployed more than 70 SS-25 missiles, a mobile system armed with a single warhead. The rapid deployment of these weapons, begun only last year, is particularly galling to the Reagan Administration, which considers them a violation of the 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation...
A good example of the report's weakness comes from its most galling passage, in which three professors are attacked who had the courage to publicly call for Safran to step down from his post. Did Spence seriously expect scholars deeply involved in this mess to keep quiet while he...