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...Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the rationality and precision of Webster do not always prevail, an issue is something around which you rouse strong feelings, upon which you evoke substantive personal commitment, and with which you get votes...
Bill King showed that he is just about as good as everyone says he is. For this reason, and because of overwhelming Big Green line strength, Dartmouth should prevail with at least a two touchdown margin...
...blocking Meredith's entry in open defiance of a court order expressly enjoining him from interfering, Barnett chose a collision course. Such conflicts are rare, if only because it is so obvious that in a showdown of force the Federal Government will prevail. Except for three Confederate Governors arrested after the Civil War, only one incumbent state Governor-Warren Terry McCray of Indiana, in 1924-has ever been sentenced to imprisonment under federal law, and he was convicted of misuse of the mails, a felony that had nothing to do with a conflict of federal and state powers...
Whatever Barnett did, federal power was sure to prevail sooner or later. Attorney General Kennedy said flatly at week's end that Meredith was "going to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi." That was undoubtedly true. It was far less certain that, after he is enrolled, his stay at the university will be at all enjoyable, or that he will soon be followed there by any other Negro...
This speciously reasoned finale mars, but does not mangle The Affair. Impeccably performed, it pungently evokes its donnish milieu and nobly invokes man's tireless quest to make justice prevail...