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Congress, however, already possesses some legitimate authority over federal courts. The Constitution, for instance, gives Congress the power to "constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court," and legal experts generally agree that the power to create implies the power to regulate and even abolish. Moreover, the Constitution awards the Supreme Court complete appellate jurisdiction, "with such exceptions, and under such regulations as Congress shall make." Experts disagree on the import of this little-exercised grant of authority. Some agree with Northwestern Law Professor Martin Redish that "if Congress truly desires, it can do almost anything it wants to the jurisdiction...
...Unlike many economists, Smithies correctly believed that the difference between a good economist and an inferior one is his sense of history," John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, said Friday. Smithies was "one of the most popular and engaging members of the Harvard Economics department," Galbraith added...
...debunks any suggestions that blacks are genetically inferior. IQ scores for ethnic groups, he says, change over time. They reflect family background and cultural assimilation. As proof he cites a group of Jews tested during World War I. Many of them were first-generation immigrants from Russia and Poland, and they had "some of the lowest scores on mental tests of any of the numerous ethnic groups tested." Now their descendants rank among the highest...
Dissatisfied with the low pay, grueling hours and inferior status that have been their lot in the past and faced with expanding job opportunities for women, many nurses have left the field. About a quarter of the nation's nearly 1.5 million registered nurses are no longer practicing, and only two-thirds of those working do so full time. The number of new nurse graduates is decreasing. That has created 100,000 nursing vacancies in the U.S.-or 72 full-time positions at an average hospital. Says Tina Filoromo, president of the National Association of Nurse Recruiters: "As long...
Conrad did eventually find his liter ary place, but never the financial security to which he aspired. Critical successes like Almayer's Folly and Lord Jim produced little money. Like most authors, Conrad was bitter about writers whose books were inferior but sold better...