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...Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right," edited by Herman Schwartz (Hill & Wang; November). Kirkus calls the book a "full-bore, peppery assault on the current Supreme Court...That the court put George W. Bush into the White House is, in these contributors' estimation, but one of its manifold sins, though it's a big one...Contributor address the Court's perceived failings, born of the very judicial activism that so many conservatives denounce...Expect worse, the authors warn, should Bush get a shot at appointing another justice. Those inclined to think that the present judiciary is awful enough will...
...oratory Today, my answer would be: I don’t know why on earth we are going to war in Iraq. I don’t know where the Democratic Party is. As for your deeper question, the things I don’t know are so manifold they keep my life magical...
...more damning criticism of Cheney is that he was a lousy CEO. He spent $7.7 billion to merge with rival Dresser in 1998, knowing that one of its former subsidiaries, Harbison-Walker, was the target of manifold legal claims from employees who worked making refractory bricks. Halliburton officials believed that Dresser was indemnified. But when Harbison filed for Chapter 11, tort lawyers came after Halliburton. Cedric Burgher, Halliburton's vice president for investor relations, points out that, even with the asbestos claims, an Austrian company paid nearly $600 million for Harbison-Walker in 1999. Says Burgher: "Nobody foresaw this." Lawyers...
...artists are expert seers and expert New Yorkers—and both facets show through in these works. Although the themes may be tired, few of the actual images are. This is due, in part, to the efforts of the featured artists; partially, however, it is because of the manifold meanings that each of these images has grown to hold in our minds over the past few months...
Baloney. Almost all of us faculty members fake it every semester. The reasons are manifold. We get to know and like our students and we don’t want to penalize them if everyone else is getting high grades. We don’t want to deal with the protests and struggles that can accompany marks in the low B and C range. Perhaps most importantly, we know that lower grades often—although not always—translate into lower student evaluations and lower enrollments. So we let loose with an orgy of academic...