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...made some noise about impeaching the President. I'm hoping to debate the issue on C-SPAN in May with Michael Medved, the conservative talk-show host. I hope it will be fun, informative and, as I like to say pompously, of service to the nation...
...museum “sets its scope a little smaller: the span of a single day in the consciousness of a single neighborhood,” the website explains...
...frank-seeming portrait of a man who can always attract a crowd of autograph seekers, even at the Republican National Convention of 2004. (Franken takes it in stride, noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span that continues to shrink: the space between politicians who want to be more TV-friendly and comedians who have, in the absence of any charisma among elected Democrats, become the spokesmen for the American Left...
...relaxed talk about life as a Supreme Court justice. When asked to choose the most important case of his tenure, Breyer pointed to Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case that ended the Florida recount, because the court had to effectively decide a presidential election in a short time span. But in terms of social impact, Breyer chose the 2003 University of Michigan affirmative action cases, specifically the ruling upholding Michigan Law School’s admissions policy. “The way the court works is very future related,” Breyer explained. Breyer devoted most of his speech...
...served as a resident tutor in Winthrop from 1935 to 1937. A student in the House, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. ’38, “became one of my closest friends,” Galbraith later told C-SPAN. Joseph’s younger brother, John F. Kennedy ’40, would appoint Galbraith as ambassador to India...