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...seeming lack of ideological approach. Alito, however, shares a radical conservative philosophy with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. In light of the fact that Alito has been nominated to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whose position as a swing-vote made her opinion critical in many decisions, it is even more critical that Senate Democrats and Republicans reject Alito. Yet, even without such considerations of balance on the Court, his record is more than a sufficient basis for our opposition.The U.S. is a safer, healthier, and fairer place to live...
...also essential that President George W. Bush preserve the balance in the court by replacing Sandra Day O’Connor with a similarly moderate nominee. This is due to the fact that O’Connor has, for a very long time, been the Supreme Court swing-vote. If she is replaced with a strictly conservative justice, then the opinions of the conservatives on the court would always vote in the majority, consistently rendering null the viewpoints of the other, more liberal justices. As the majority of United States citizens consider themselves to be political moderates, having a strictly...
...individual sport at Harvard—that much is certain. Five players from the Crimson are lined up for each tournament, and at the end of each round their scores are added up to determine the team’s finish. When one player takes a swing from the tee or putts a ball across the green, he is doing so for the four other players around him. The Crimson men’s team has taken this message to heart, and its three freshmen have shown flashes of brilliance and, more importantly, many rounds of solid golf.Every fall tournament...
...across Iraq, the numbers seemed fantastic: More than 90 percent of voters in many Shi'ite and Kurdish provinces were reported to have voted for the proposed constitution in Saturday's referendum. In Anbar, a robustly Sunni region, the numbers were equally high against it. And in the swing provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, the numbers simply looked implausible...
...Howard calls the measures "major but not extreme." It's classic Howard reform. From little things big things grow, as the vernacular poet sang. If he can swing the legislation without significant alterations, Howard will have started a cultural and economic dynamic that will change Australia forever. Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will...