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...Parks' defiance led immediately to a 381-day bus boycott--drum majored by a 26-year-old Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--and ultimately to a nine-year march culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks...
...people are interested in that." Then, after a meeting last week in which Specter tried to walk Miers through traps she might encounter at her hearing, he spoke well of her to reporters. But she later phoned him and contradicted his recollection that she had expressed support for Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case establishing the right to privacy that is considered a key underpinning of abortion rights. Strike two was Miers' response to the Judiciary Committee's questionnaire, which led to an unusual request for elaboration on eight of her 28 answers. Even Republicans griped that her responses were...
...HAVE BEEN QUITE PUBLIC ABOUT YOUR DEPRESSION, WHICH STARTED 20 YEARS AGO, DURING THE LIBEL TRIAL WILLIAM WESTMORELAND V. CBS. DID THE TRIAL TRIGGER WHAT WAS ALREADY THERE? I have a hunch that my mother suffered from depression. But when you're called a liar, a cheat and a fraud, you worry about it. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, thought about suicide. My wife Mary said, "You're depressed." My own doctor said, "Don't talk about depression. You're a tough guy. It's bad for your image to suggest that you're depressed." That happens...
...Yorick, Priam, Old Norway come alive as if from a vivid history book. The full version restores Shakespeare's emphasis on court politics, with whispers of intrigue that establish Hamlet and Laertes as potential usurpers of Claudius' throne, and massed armies behind Hamlet. Here he might be a Henry V who's gone just this side of bonkers...
Tribe—who represented a gay client convicted under a Georgia state sodomy law in the landmark 1986 Supreme Court case of Bowers v. Hardwick—wrote that the course would tackle issues related to marriage rights and same-sex weddings...