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...Wordsworth reading in Cambridge you spoke about how Rush Limbaugh has turned into sort of a cult figure for many of his listeners. Leaving the cult aspect aside, he does have the sort of humorous maverick style that appeals to many young people...
Profet argues that by unquestioningly accepting the traditional view of menstruation, physicians have unwittingly sabotaged a woman's natural defenses with inappropriate medical treatments in cases of uterine infection. "Imagine consulting a cardiologist who didn't understand that the function of the heart was to pump blood?" asks the maverick scientist. "How could he treat you? That was a fundamental question in the 1600s. The same is true today for women's reproductive systems...
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...practicing consensual sex in the home of one of them. Consistent with what one lower-court judge called this "criminalization" of homosexual acts, the Justices denied gays any but the lowest standing as a potentially disadvantaged group under the 14th Amendment. Since then, activists have achieved limited success with maverick lower courts by citing similar protections in the Fifth Amendment. However, Laurence Tribe, a constitutional- law scholar at Harvard, deems a challenge to the new regulations through equal protection "an uphill fight...
...surprised. Willie Nelson's gone and grown up -- but he's done that before. From Nashville tunesmith to Austin outlaw, country singer to pop star, counterculture plaything to movie personality, conscience of Farm Aid to IRS whipping boy, he's remained a maverick without portfolio or apology. The only consistent quality about him has been his unpredictability...