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LONG BEFORE TODAY'S POWERFUL PHALANX OF REpublican-nominated Justices began to dominate the U.S. Supreme Court and push it sharply to the right, Justice Byron White voted to nudge it in that general direction. Last Friday, after 31 years on the high bench, the moderate-to-conservative Kennedy appointee -- a legal ace, Rhodes scholar and former star football player -- announced that he would step down at the end of the court's current term this summer...
...been two weeks since a coalition formed out of a North House meeting of minority student leaders. This week, the coalition got a crash course on Harvard bureaucracy when it had a series of meetings with a phalanx of Harvard administrators: President Neil L. Rudenstine one day, Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell the next, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and others yesterday. After all the meetings, though, the coalition has seen no substantive results and members say they want to make sure their demands are ultimately...
...Square contains a plane of wretched excess, conspicuous consumerism and degeneracy. I freely admit that I fantasize about riding at the head of a phalanx of Sherman tanks, Li Peng at my side, and squashing the whole fetid dump...
...PHALANX OF CAMERAS COVered the back wall. Gray-suited CBS executives lined the side aisles. Reporters crowded into the room as if the Iran-contra hearings were on. But for David Letterman, the press conference at CBS's New York City headquarters to announce that he was jumping from NBC to CBS was just another late-night monologue...
...program] is an effort by thegovernment to take care of what was probably anoutdated system of tax administration in which yousent one revenue agent, who was increasingly metby a phalanx of [lawsuits], trying to grapple withexceedingly complex tax issues by himself orherself," Owens said...