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...remembered for its bitterly split 5-to-4 decision in 2000 in Bush v. Gore, which many Democrats saw as sneaky Republican prestidigitation to give George W. Bush the White House. It was one of the few decisions in which Rehnquist supported the use of federal power to restrict a state, one whose supreme court had ordered a manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. But Rehnquist didn't win them all, and his first years on the court were often spent in lonely dissents. And over the years, he mellowed. In 2000, he angered conservatives by personally...
Harvard Law School said it would restrict entry to students at Tulane and Loyola law schools, while the College will process applications “on an expedited basis,” according to Kirby’s letter...
...Britain configured their forces and defined their war-fighting doctrines around the central element of a massive strategic air arm designed to carry the battle to the enemy's civilian society. In Europe the U.S. B-17 and B-24 bomber fleets made a considerable effort to restrict their attacks to high-value economic and military targets. But in the endgame of the war against Japan, long-range B-29 bombers systematically undertook fire-bombing raids that consumed 66 of Japan's largest cities and killed as many as 900,000 civilians--many times the combined death tolls of Hiroshima...
...dealmakers have regarded junk bonds, the risky, high-yielding IOUs that have helped to fuel the current rash of mergers and acquisitions, as the juice that made the party go. Now the Federal Reserve is watering down the punch. Last week the board voted 3 to 2 to restrict the use of junk bonds in financing certain corporate takeovers...
...enactment by the Minnesota legislature would set up "joint underwriting associations" to issue liability policies, written by the state, to customers who could not get commercial insurance; any losses would be picked up jointly by the state's insurers. But to limit those losses, the bill also would restrict punitive damages, among other tort reforms...