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...NLRB's national board has five members, appointed by the president, who serve in staggered terms of five years each. In order to completely reconstruct the NLRB a president must hold office for two terms, so there is usually a political balance on the Board...
...that, broadly speaking, was what happened to figure- painting in America between 1960 and 1980. Fischl is not a mature artist yet, but he deserves nothing but respect for his struggle to create a mode of figuration that is tense, dramatic and full of body. He has managed to reconstruct at least some of his birthright; his figures, though they inhabit a wildly different sexual and psychic world from that of late-19th century America, have a direct matter-of-factness that reminds one of Winslow Homer. But the signs of loss do show...
STONE sets Plato's Socratic dialogues against the accounts of contemporary Greek dramatists to try to reconstruct the story of Socrates and Athens. Plato, Socrates' Boswell, so to speak, was often disingenuous in recounting his mentor's ordeal. Through Plato, Socrates became a noble martyr forced to drink the hemlock because of he constantly exhorted his fellow Athenians to virtue. But, Stone writes, Socrates wasn't tried simply for being a nudge. Socrates may be "revered as a nonconformist, but few realize that he was a rebel against an open society and the admirer of a closed...
...around for a long time but just wasn't recognized," Elvin-Lewis explains. It is possible, Tulane's Garry speculates, that the AIDS virus mutated and became more lethal in the 1970s. To test that hypothesis, he plans to spend much of the next year or so attempting to reconstruct viral genes from Robert R.'s tissue. "We know that the virus was not epidemic in 1969, so we might be able to identify the changes between then and now that enabled it to spread," Garry says. If scientists can figure out how the AIDS virus might have changed...
...knew the story to be false or showed "reckless disregard of whether it was false." That provision turned out to have some unforeseen negative consequences for media defendants. It has allowed plaintiffs to review journalists' notes, internal memorandums, video-tape outtakes and other raw materials in an effort to reconstruct the entire reporting-and-editing process, adding greatly to the length and complexity of pretrial discovery of evidence...