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President Bush’s recent appointees Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. did not join in the Thomas concurrence, hinting that they may stand with the liberal-to-moderate justices of the court in supporting the controversial premise of the right to abortion. (However, some commentators have pointed out that Roberts and Alito may have felt that a case dealing specifically with IDX was not the right time to unveil their entire abortion jurisprudence...
...single, pro-democracy party. But Yuri Afanasyev, a leader of the liberal Inter-Regional Group of Deputies in the Parliament, opposed the idea. Putting everyone into the same party, he argued, was a Bolshevik approach. "It is better for us to agree on something fundamental," he said, "rather than join something anonymous and faceless...
...Martinez ’08, the lead Harvard representative in the caucus. The caucus, consisting of over 80 Puerto Rican students from Harvard and MIT, formed last summer after the cash-strapped Puerto Rican government shut down for two weeks in May 2006. “We wanted to join together to change the economic downslide,” said Katia Acosta, a senior at MIT and the lead MIT representative at the caucus. The panels offered several notable speakers, including the chief justice of the island’s Supreme Court, Federico Hernandez Denton...
...Obama’s New Hampshire campaign. Gazing into the sea of college students—some wearing “Obama” t-shirts or holding up “Obama ’08” signs—the senator called on students to join his campaign. “I can’t do it by myself,” Obama said to the cheering crowd. “There are going to be times when I make mistakes, but if this campaign becomes a vehicle for your hopes and dreams, then it cannot...
...Despite his father's imprisonment and Yeltsin's own record of rebelliousness, the youth proved bright enough to earn an engineering degree, join the Communist Party and launch a career as an industrial apparatchik. After a stint as head of an engineering plant in Ekaterinburg - then called Sverdlovsk - he moved into full-time party work in 1968 and became head of the regional party organization by 1976. His record as a tough and effective administrator attracted the attention of Gorbachev, who in 1985 invited him to Moscow, where Yeltsin was promoted to head of the city's party organization...