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...tempting to interpret the court's impulse to roll back the authority of the Federal Government as a leap aboard the new conservative bandwagon of devolution. The move, however, has been brewing in the court for years, led by conservative Justices. Because the ruling's impact will depend on the court's inclinations, it may be too soon to say whether the Lopez ruling represents, in the words of Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman, a "constitutional moment" -- an epochal period when the court realigns itself with a deep shift in prevailing political philosophy-or rather, as Ackerman's Yale colleague...
...MASTERPIECE IN the world of journalism, the special issue on Cyberspace [Spring 1995]. Your sense of a subject sorely desired and needed by the people was a work of right-on thinking. My understanding of what is going on in the computer cyber, superhighway world took a quantum leap. Efforts thus far to explain the complicated subject, vis-a-vis bits and pieces, at times confused me even further...
...that, however, Clinton would need to make the leap, and he would need to make it before primary politics complicate diplomacy. If not, America's Vietnam policy, prisoner of a war long past, may well be added to the list of missing in action. --Reported by Sandra Burton/Washington and Frank Gibney Jr./Hanoi
...most part, the answer is no. We see Marler worry about and eventually pass his General Exams in the Harvard English department, struggle with a psychotic roommate and fail in the pursuit of Pamela, an enigmatic novelist, but none of these things make the leap from anecdote to art. The monologue often relies on mere local reference to keep the audience interested. We get a sort of thrill from hearing places and people we know mentioned on stage. When Marler does strive for larger meaning, he usually achieves only pretension--as with the title, which has no more concrete meaning...
...test is not biased," Assistant Director inPublic Affairs for The College Board Greg C. Busbysaid. "It is a simplistic leap to assume thatbecause girls don't score as well that the test isbiased...