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Ferguson wrote in an e-mail that his time at NYU had been “a very successful experiment,” but that “in the end I couldn’t resist the allure of one of the best History departments in the world...
...think the term granny grabber refers to an unsavory frequenter of shopping malls. But in the garment industry, it evokes one of the most heartwarming and affirming human interactions: diminutive overalls and dresses that prove so downright adorable that grandparents can't resist buying them as gifts. Thanks in part to the granny-grabber factor, children's clothes have been a consistent bright spot in an otherwise rocky retail environment. "The children's market has bucked the trend," says Marshal Cohen, co-president of the market-research firm NPDFashionworld. "It's the only apparel sector that grew...
...just that, until—while standing in line at the bar—I could hear 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” blasting from the hip-hop floor. The two other Americans and I decided that we couldn’t resist dancing to the familiar music. After recognizing the trade-off between the good music on the American floor and the cute guys on the Spanish floor, I briefly returned to the latter, although the appeal quickly wore off and left me longing for something (and someone) American...
...With their bitter memories of colonialism, Iraqis are likely to resist any American push to determine who should write their constitution. But there is little reason to think that Iraqis are not up to the task. All the major parties and ethnic groups say they are committed to a united Iraq. The nightmare of Saddam's one-party state has made all Iraqis skeptical about the concentration of power. Having been joined for so long in their suffering, Iraqis have common ground with which to shape their future...
...states" as the means to legitimize federal mandates on racial integration. To Rehnquist, this is a perversion of the Constitution, and he has been on a three-decade-long quest to rein in federal power. As early as 1975 he was arguing--in another lone dissent--that states could resist a mandate from Congress by asserting that the framers believed in much greater state sovereignty. And here he has made the most headway, getting a majority of Justices to agree with him that a variety of federal laws overstepped the limits of congressional power...