Word: notionalism
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...branch of government show when it feels another is not showing enough? The Rehnquist Court holds the record for tossing out congressional statutes, often on the ground that Congress is muscling in on state turf. The argument rests on how one reads the Constitution's Commerce Clause, an omnibus notion that allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce but has frequently been used as an all-purpose regulatory vehicle. The high court has overturned a federal law that barred possession of a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a school and parts of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, deciding these...
...lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...students were waiting for admission; and I had to cram into one of the uncomfortable seats upstairs. Sen, in his heavy academic robes, began brilliantly, with a joke about how he had just been pestered by a dim-witted immigration official at Heathrow Airport who couldn't grasp the notion that an Indian like Sen could be the Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University. From then on, things went downhill. As Sen began unraveling his theories of personal identity, I realized that I disagreed with everything he said. Within a few minutes, I wanted to leave. Only the suspicion...
...will be worth $10.9 billion globally by 2009, according to analysts Kelsey Group. The individual pages contained on any of these sites or their blogging cousins may appear trivial: minutiae about cats' feeding habits, or the favorite break-up songs of teenage girls. But companies are banking on the notion that, in the aggregate, these pages represent a gold mine of credible consumer information. "Whether you are referring someone to either a great restaurant or a local hairstylist, since the lead came from a trusted source, there's a good chance that the person will be much more qualified...
Sinéad O'Connor Rebel Roots: Dublin, Ireland Reggae Sound: Her next album, Throw Down Your Arms, features Jamaican musicians and Marley songs. Island Cred: She embraces the Rastafarian faith--and the notion of hair as a statement...