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...Scalia right? Well, it depends on how you read what he said," Smith says. "If you think he meant that the decision would upend the way the law treats homosexuals, then I think he was right. But he also warned that the decision would lead to a massive social upheaval. And just like we found in Massachusetts after the gay marriage ruling, that hasn't happened at all. These laws haven't changed the way anybody else lives their life." He adds, "I didn't spend a lot of time listening to what Justice Scalia was saying. And I wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Court's Gay Rights Legacy | 6/28/2008 | See Source »

...Throw the bums out” was the unofficial motto of Cambridge politics this year, which saw a wonkish reformer upend a 70-year-old dynasty on the City Council and a changed School Committee put an end date on the district superintendent’s tenure...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Year of Change, Voters Shake Up Council, School Administration | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Willie Horton Hit on Obama? | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

...ambush the committee," objected South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings at the hearing, accusing McCain of trying to squeeze through the amendment "in the dark of night." Hollings was also upset that McCain's proposal would upend a rulemaking process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting McCain to the Ethics Test | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...about the same time Odierno was targeting the Baghdad beltway, he tasked his staff to find out how Saddam Hussein had defended Baghdad against the many secret cells and gangs that wanted to upend his regime. The answer came back: Saddam had always maintained a complex perimeter around Baghdad that on paper looked like a series of concentric circles. Saddam had posted his Republican Guard in various towns that ringed the capital, and inside the city, he had stationed his Special Republican Guard. If it had worked for Saddam, thought Petraeus and Odierno, it might work for them against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surge At Year One | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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