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...more conservative history departments around, as critics contend, it also has been one of the most aloof. Popular junior professors repeatedly have been asked to take their talents elsewhere. More than 1000 students flocked last spring to Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley's lectures on post-World War II politics. He was denied tenure. Roughly 100 attended this fall's post-Brinkley version of that class...
...Hospitals are at the brink of disaster," William Wane, president of Bon Secours Hospital, said at the rally. "Enough is enough, we're tired of being a whipping post for the financial ills of our society," he said...
...project began as a book about working wives, evolved into a steamy kiss- and-tell memoir, had its best parts lifted by the Washington Post, then was withdrawn from circulation -- all without ever being published. Such was the fate of the 80-page book proposal by Washington Hostess Joan Braden, wife of Syndicated Columnist Tom Braden, frequent companion of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and mother of the brood on which the TV sitcom Eight Is Enough was based...
Equal protection. A central instrument of court power has been the 14th & Amendment. Though drafted in the post-Civil War era chiefly to ensure just treatment for blacks, it extends its guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law to "any person," allowing the court to invoke it to cover women, aliens, illegitimate children and sometimes the poor. Bork defends the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case on the ground that the intent of the 14th Amendment contains the "core" idea of protecting blacks from government discrimination. But he finds no similar intent to protect...
...reality of politics played its part. The Washington Post tallied the number of days in August that she combined Transportation Department travel , with campaign stops in key primary states. (The Government and the campaign split the costs of the trips.) She disputes the figures: it was 18 days, not 21, and only 11 were weekdays. "I wonder too," she retorts, "is there a difference between candidates retaining their jobs in Government and a spouse?" Dole doesn't single out the Vice President by name, nor does she use the harsh-sounding term double standard. But she implies it with...