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...January the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case which the White House hopes will overturn the Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion 15 years...
...have surprised anyone--the University announced last spring that it intended to demolish the building and replace it with a five-story hotel. What was disturbing was the timing of the move and the University's straightforward admission that it destroyed the building before it was eligible to attain landmark status...
While man was gaining on the angels, woman was still marking time. Late in the year at a conference on women's liberation, Kate Millett gave a landmark speech on "Sexual Politics" that was the germ of her seminal 1970 book. However, exponents of such views were widely derided as "bra burners." Even in the antiwar and civil rights movements, women were relegated to subordinate roles. Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael went as far as to say that "the only position for women in the Movement is prone." Some things refused to change...
...acted in part because Congress failed last year to pass legislation that would reform the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which erected walls between the banking and securities businesses. The landmark statute is widely viewed as outdated, but many legislators, including Texas Democrat Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, contend that the Fed has wrongly usurped congressional powers to oversee the banking industry...
Having been used only twice, within a four-day period nearly 44 years ago at the end of World War II, the Bomb is prone to mind-numbing abstraction. The TV series uses grainy, black-and-white newsreels to make landmark events feel as though they happened in the real world and epigrammatic statements sound as though they were said by real people. One of many moments that make War and Peace television at its best: a 1946 United Nations disarmament conference is seen considering a U.S. plan for international controls that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing...