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...Kansas, a fortress of Reaganism, the state legislature seems to be moving leftward as the farm crisis persists. Says Richard Larimore, recently retired administrative assistant to the minority in the state senate: "The pendulum is swinging back and is already approaching the middle. In Kansas, this will probably be the last big legislative year for major economic- development programs because people are figuring out that that means giving money to the wealthy...
...Sudan's four large southern towns. In addition, the insurgents braced themselves for an expected assault from government forces, supported, the rebels claimed, by 13,000 Libyan troops gathered on the border. Though Sadiq denies any ties to Tripoli, there seems little doubt that he is drifting politically leftward. In early August the new Prime Minister visited Libya, which had been an enemy of the pro-American Nimeiri, and later he traveled to Moscow. Said Information Minister Mohammed Tewfiq Ahmed: "We cannot afford to have bad relations with any of the superpowers. In the past the Soviets built some hospitals...
Gallagher is active in the Democratic Socialists of America--more so than Bachrach, who is also a member--and is considered the most leftward of the candidates by many observers. He has received $350 in campaign contributions from Critical Legal Studies guru and Harvard Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, and smaller amounts from Nobel Laureates Professor of Cardiology Bernard Lown and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald...
...Sciences, tenure promotion at the Law School is generally routine, and no junior faculty member has been denied tenure since 1969. However, if all or most of the professors being considered over the next two years are promoted, the balance of power at the Law School will shift leftward dramatically...
...School." Kennedy and his colleagues make no claim to "moral purity," and they believe that they don't have to give up their careers in order to be radical. By offering a creative, radical perspective at the Law School, Kennedy says, he can expand the range of choices leftward, thereby pulling moderates slightly to the left. "It's surprising how effective that is," he says...