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Staff writers for the old The Subterranean Review, which ceased publication last year because of what one member described as a rightward swing in the student body, said yesterday that they are meeting with a new corps of campus leftists in an effort to launch a revamped version of the magazine...
...chance to appoint a young conservative such as David H. Souter '61 grants Bush the opportunity to give the court a rightward jolt that could last for decades. And with two other liberal justices ripe for retirement, a Bush Court could firmly implant the conservative agenda in the American judicial system...
...party's rightward slide was signaled three weeks ago when Russian Communists chose Ivan Polozkov, the hard-line party boss of the southern Krasnodar region, as their standard bearer. The right-wing political coup appeared to have caught Russian party reformers by surprise. They had clearly underestimated the depth of resentment in local party organizations with everything from political change in Eastern Europe to schemes for converting military assembly lines to the production of consumer goods...
...cases last week involving parental notification, O'Connor swayed between the court's evenly balanced liberal and conservative wings. She joined court liberals in a 5-to-4 majority that overturned the Minnesota law requiring adolescents to inform both parents ! before obtaining an abortion. Then she moved rightward to give conservatives a 5-to-4 majority that approved the Minnesota law that offers minors the option of getting permission for abortion from a judge...
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...