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Since this spring, Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon (R-N.Y.) has introduced a series of amendments in four House bills calling for the end of first Department of Defense (DOD) and now civilian research funds to such schools...
...King Solomon, in his wisdom, would listen to the details of each dispute, carefully weigh the competing interests and then render a decision perfectly tailored to the circumstances. Great king. Lousy judge--at least by the lights of Justice Antonin Scalia...
Judges--not all of whom have the wisdom of Solomon--should apply general, unvarying rules to every case, Scalia says. And the Constitution, he maintains, consists of just such rules. Where others see highly abstract terms, intentionally written to evolve with the nation they're meant to govern, Scalia--who describes himself as a textualist and originalist--sees a text of fixed and narrow meaning: in the Bill of Rights, "liberty" cannot comprise the privacy and personal autonomy to choose to have an abortion or to engage in homosexual relations because it did not in 1791. The 14th Amendment...
...hostile Arabs." Leaders who can assess their choices only in terms of preconceived, fixed notions, who refuse to benefit from experience, who reject contrary signs of a better course, says historian Tuchman, are the ones doomed to folly. That, she notes, is what cost Rehoboam, son of King Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel and the 10 tribes forever...
EXPECTING. NANCY KERRIGAN, 26, Olympian on ice; her first child, with husband-agent Jerry Solomon, 41; in Boston. The premiere of the junior Kerrigan is expected in December...