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...decision marks a triumphant fulfillment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's promise in August that she and O'Connor would help their male colleagues "look at life a bit differently." (Ginsburg wrote a brief concurrence, her first writing on the high bench.) Says law professor Susan Deller Ross, head of Georgetown University's Sex Discrimination Clinic: "This illustrates the merits of diversity. Men have not typically undergone a barrage of verbal abuse about their sexuality as a condition of having a job. I think they have a very difficult time understanding the impact of that." The seven...
...disaster," said Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of physics and Nobel Physics Prize recipient. "It means that 50 years of triumphant research into the fundamental nature of matter in this country has ended...
...case, Eisenstein creates the image of absolute tyranny well. The film ends on a triumphant, melodramatic note; Ivan has consolidated his rule, weathered the storms of opposition and has shaped the course of Russia's historical destiny...
That is a danger, but the Clintons seem to sense it. After the speech, the Clintons and the Gores returned to the White House and made a triumphant visit to the troops in the health-care "war room" in the Old Executive Office Building. Greenberg and Grunwald pulled Clinton into an adjacent office to deliver the results of the networks' instant polls. But the new challenge was summed by Mrs. Clinton, who stood on a chair in the middle of the room and said, "After tonight, this is no longer the war room. It's the delivery room...
...triumphant but curious time for Bill Clinton. He deserved credit not for what he had done but for what he had not done. This agreement was the work of others over decades. Clinton stayed out of the way in the last act and let it happen naturally. He did not posture or seek personal acclaim, but paid tribute to those who had long carried the heavy burden. Such acts are far too rare in the presidency, but they are just as much a measure of honor. Bill Clinton enhanced himself as well as those who had braved the road...