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Some purists, even if they accept that values affect a judge's interpretation of the Constitution, maintain that nominees should not be rejected based on their politics so long as they are intellectually competent. But the Constitution does require the Senate give its "advice and consent" to all court nominations--and that is justification enough to reject a nominee based on politics...
...voters reject the petition, the legislature will have leverage to reorganize expensive state accounts and make gradual, sensible cuts in the budget, LoPresti said. If voters embrace the measure on the November ballot, LoPresti said legislators are unsure what will happen...
...scarce. In the name of promoting economic growth, Bush renewed his support of six tax giveaways that would cost the Treasury an estimated $30 billion over five years. The most controversial of these would cut the maximum levy on capital gains from 33% to 15%. Meanwhile, he seemed to reject any increase in income taxes for high earners. Concerning reductions in domestic spending -- the most politically explosive part of deficit control -- Bush was mute...
...treating patients with advanced cases of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer that afflicts 28,000 Americans annually. "We now use radiation, chemotherapy and surgery -- external forces -- on cancer patients," Rosenberg says. "But gene therapy uses the body's own internal mechanism. We're trying to make the body itself reject the disease...
Clay is not wholly anything--he is half Jewish, half Gentile. His WASP grandparents reject him completely, never having forgiven his father for marrying a Jew. He is the odd third of an otherwise perfect Preferential. His two roommates, Booth Tarkington Griggs and Pownall Hamm, are purebred patricians who breeze into the most exclusive club...