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...Some say that Justice William Brennan is the court's master politician. As leader of the court's shrinking liberal wing, he manages to muster more majorities for liberal results than one might expect...
...deny that AIDS victims deserve all the compassion and help that society can muster. The latest statistics presented at the conference show that the toll is still mounting and the end of the epidemic is nowhere in sight. At least 600,000 Americans are infected with the virus, more than 136,000 have become sick, and some 83,000 of those have died...
Much of the council's spring session was spent battling absenteeism--often unsuccessfully. The body failed to muster enough members to gain a quorum in any of the final four weeks of the year--although some council officers continue to maintain that by ejecting eight representatives who had not been showing up for meetings they had obtained the necessary quorums...
Last week President George Bush removed most of what leverage Washington still enjoyed over Beijing by approving a one-year extension of China's most favored nation trading status. Bush's move drew angry criticism from many members of Congress, including Republicans, but Capitol Hill is unlikely to muster the two-thirds vote of both chambers that would be needed to block the measure. Bush argued his case on economic grounds, claiming that to deprive Beijing of its MFN classification would harm the Chinese people, cost capitalist Hong Kong 20,000 jobs and $8.5 billion in exports of Chinese-made...
...that law fails to pass muster, many of opponents of the amendment will probably change their minds. And given the political bashing Democrats took on the "patriotism" issue in 1988, it is unlikely that many will stand up to the flag movement this summer--especially with congressional elections only months away...