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...violence erupted in Paris last week at the end of a rally by 100,000 high school students. These were the children of the generation that took to the streets in 1968, but unlike their parents before them, they were not trying to change the world or overturn the government. They were just demanding more money for education...
...studying in a work of art." But those are fighting words to the legions of artists, critics and scholars who have devoted the past 20 years to developing a feminist critique of art history. Their efforts have virtually set the agenda for academic discussion and have begun to overturn the standard textbook reading of visual art as an orderly march of styles from cave paintings to postmodernism...
...protest against the violent quelling of an antigovernment demonstration, some holy men in Mandalay had launched a campaign of refusing alms from soldiers and denying them other Buddhist sacraments. At times, the monks would overturn their alms bowls when a soldier approached. Finally, after the government ordered an end to the protest, troops armed with bayonets encircled Mandalay's 133 monasteries, then raided and ransacked some of the holy places...
THINK of it this way. No Senator would vote to confirm a judge who would overturn Brown v. Board of Education, the decision that ended school segregation. Few Senators would support a nominee who questioned Griswold v. Connecticut (which established the right to privacy) even though intellectually competent people and cogent legal arguments can be found to oppose it. Some political ends are so important to Americans that we cannot allow a Court appointee to jeopardize them...
...bachelor from Weare, N.H., keenly senses that he has been chosen by Bush and history to cast perhaps the deciding vote on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal in all states. He gave scant comfort to either side on that issue, flatly refusing to discuss Roe even in the wake of lengthy grilling by committee chairman Joseph Biden. Though he acknowledged the right of married couples to privacy, he refused to budge further in discussing either privacy or abortion rights. When asked whether he could understand the anguish of a woman facing...