Word: richarde
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...region of the world. Made possible by San Francisco's Goldman Environmental Foundation, the award will recognize "important efforts to preserve or enhance the environment," from protecting endangered species to combatting pollution. The idea is to give conservationists the kind of recognition and prestige afforded to Nobel laureates. Says Richard Goldman, president of the foundation and a longtime environmental crusader: "We're trying to find people who can inspire others, people who make a difference." + The first Goldman prizes will be announced in April...
MARIA MCKEE: MARIA MCKEE (Geffen). Love songs like crystal, done with some fancy collaborators (including Richard Thompson and Robbie Robertson) by a vocalist who can soar just fine...
...rightward steps that made them the most conservative high bench in a generation. This week, as the Justices open a new session, the question is not whether the court will continue along that path but how far and how fast it will go. Says University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein: "Some decisions that people on the left saw as benchmarks are contestable again...
Legal scholars trace the origins of the court's rightward swing to Richard Nixon's four appointments to the high bench. Reagan gave the right a working majority by naming his new Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- on the basis of conservative ideology. The three appear to have forged an alliance with Byron White and William Rehnquist, whom Reagan elevated to Chief Justice in 1986. Together, says Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School, they form a "gang of five that increasingly operates without taking into consideration the views of the other...
...story also sounded a special chord for associate editor Richard Lacayo, who wrote the story on the children who wait, too often in vain, for adoption. His brother Joseph, now 21, was one who did not. He arrived on a day Lacayo remembers as the happiest in his family's life. "All the while that I worked on this piece," says Lacayo, "I had my brother in mind as the image of why adoption is worth whatever trouble people go through." Despite uncovering some painful sides of adoption, our staffers came away heartened by how many children and potential parents...