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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion of helping the disadvantaged or promoting upward mobility is rendered irrelevant if the federal government does not even allow every American to get an equal education. Without equal access to the best colleges and universities, all attempts to create an equal opportunity society are doomed to failure...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Threat to Equality | 3/7/1985 | See Source »

...theory of government is more dear to the hearts of Washington conservatives than the "new federalism"--the notion born in the Nixon . Administration that the Federal Government should give back to the states and cities much of the power that it has acquired since the New Deal. The new federalists' position got a major boost in 1976 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress had only a limited right to interfere with "traditional" functions of local governments. But one Justice, Harry Blackmun, was a reluctant member of the shaky 5-4 majority in that case. Later Blackmun sided against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Court Flip-Flop: A redefinition of states' rights | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...even Wechsler admits that the "vacillating" of the court on the issue hurts the bench's image. Former Reagan Justice Department Lawyer Bruce Fein has a harsher assessment: "This reinforces the notion that this court is without a head." The Burger Court has long been pushed and pulled by an unpredictable, shifting center. During his 14 years on the court, Blackmun, 76, has voted with the court's conservatives on many criminal-justice issues but frequently sided with the liberals on other questions. Some observers see the San Antonio reversal as the latest assertion of independence by a Justice once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Court Flip-Flop: A redefinition of states' rights | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Reputation, of all human possessions, is perhaps the least tangible yet the most zealously guarded. To be known for integrity and honor, most people willingly labor a lifetime. Even a rogue may cherish the mistaken notion that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago, puts it in Othello, "Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls." That is why the concepts of slander and libel, and of the right of the aggrieved to seek redress for defamation, were introduced into English common law during the Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Slander and Libel | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Madonna may indeed have a shrewd notion of both her limitations and her ultimate appeal. "I don't think Madonna, whom I like, has any particular interest in music," says Rock Critic Greil Marcus. "She's going to end up a big movie star. There's nothing wrong with that." As the eldest daughter in a large family whose mother died young, Madonna has always seemed to be looking for a way out. She studied dance, tried ballet and, by the time she left home in her late teens, had already starred in her first movie. It was a Super...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: These Big Girls Don't Cry | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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