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...Senior Day for Perry Barlow. She’s such a great captain and we really wanted to honor her.” Harvard takes a break from Ivy League play on Wednesday with a game against New Hampshire at Harvard Stadium before Friday’s tilt at Cornell. —Staff writer Tyler D. Sipprelle can be reached at sipprell@fas.harvard.edu...
Earlier this year, Takoma Park, Md., A suburb of Washington with a liberal tilt, held a special election to fill a vacant city-council seat. It was the town's latest contest under a 1992 law that allows any adult resident--including noncitizens--to vote for local offices. And since the election occurred at an odd time of year, officials took extra steps to get the word out. They mailed a notice, in Spanish and English, to every home. They sent a second notice to every registered voter. Yet when Election Day came, turnout was light, especially among noncitizens...
...turned less on an ideological move than on his support for states' rights, since a basic issue was whether Massachusetts and other state plaintiffs had standing to sue for federal regulation. But the study says Kennedy started out conservative and shifted left before leveling off, meaning a renewed leftward tilt is possible...
...before the case was decided by a 5-4 vote in 1992. The shifts could also mean we can tone down the bitter battles over court nominees. Justice Rehnquist's 1986 nomination as Chief Justice might have irked Democrats less had they foreseen what the study calculates as his tilt toward moderation by 2003, a year in which he voted to reverse a death sentence. And now that we realize how fluid judicial ideology may be, perhaps Presidents can emphasize talent over politics in picking nominees...
...groaning clich, but "Time will tell" is surprisingly useful here. The study suggests that time will change the Supreme Court even without new Justices. So if you don't like the current ideological tilt, just be patient...