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...certainly does make him an activist for thegays on campus and outside," says ThomsonProfessor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, afounder of the Madison Center for EducationalAffairs, which helps fund Peninsula...
Congress is never too humbled by scandal to pass up a turf fight. This week its leaders plan to call for a vote on a constitutional amendment, proposed by James Madison in 1789, barring Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises. Now that 38 states have ratified the proposal, Congress wants credit too. Constitutional scholars say the vote is meaningless; the 27th Amendment will be official as soon as national archivist Don W. Wilson declares that the states' paperwork is in order...
...DEAD PRESIDENTS COULD SMILE IN THEIR GRAVES, James Madison would be beaming. Nearly 203 years after the fourth President proposed a constitutional amendment to prevent Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise, a requisite 38 states have agreed that there is "a seeming indecorum," as Madison contended, in the power to increase one's own salary. Last week four states, prompted by public outrage over the Senate's 1991 midnight pay hike and other Capitol Hill scandals, ratified the amendment, which Madison had sought as part of what became the original Bill of Rights. While the provision does...
...care than their male Republican counterparts, but every bit as fiscally conservative. The combination is a strong lure for middle-class voters. A number of female candidates who support abortion rights have won primary battles that could portend problems for antiabortion Republicans. In Houston, for example, congressional candidate Dolly Madison McKenna defeated antiabortion opponent Esther Lee Yao although Yao outspent her several times over. In Illinois' Republican primary, state representative Penny Pullen, an antiabortionist and disciple of right-to-lifer Phyllis Schlafly, was defeated by abortion-rights advocate Rosemary Mulligan...
...trash heap reveals, those are also its bad qualities. Scientists have spent more than a decade developing biodegradable polymers, but so far they have proved 10 times as expensive to produce as petroleum-based versions. Last week researchers at Michigan State University in East Lansing and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., announced that for the first time, they have coaxed the production of a biodegradable plastic from a very inexpensive source: green plants...