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Americans born between V-J day and J.F.K. have always considered themselves the 20th century's chosen people. Their wonder years were blithe and prosperous; they invented sex, discovered candor and stopped an immoral war; they were rewarded with Haagen-Dazs and Saturday Night Live. Three decades ago, the Beatles' crude, cheerfully anarchic exuberance came as a revelation to the adolescents of the day, who proceeded to make an ideology and then a mass-market sensibility out of a certain high brattishness. Adolescent baby boomers were by turns passionate and sullen, angry at the world in general and grownups...
...amounts to a mini-revolution at an institution that has been France's bastion of high culture ever since Charles V set up his library there in about 1360. Loyrette, 56, says his goal is not to be controversial just for the sake of it. But, he insists: "In a house like this you need to open the windows. We hadn't aired for a long time...
...Sinardet said Leterme was wrong to blame the system, as his own Conservative party, the CD&V, had refused to compromise on reforms. "The problem is that there is no alternative: the CD&V are the largest party in Flanders and they are needed in any formula that gets us out of here...
...already seen the power the Court has over global warming legislation. In April of 2007, the Court shocked the Bush Administration when it ruled against the federal government in the landmark case of Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The state was pushing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act; the agency denied it had that right. To the surprise of many, the White House not the least, the Court ruled in favor of Massachusetts, issuing a majority opinion that the EPA did have the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and that under...
That case might make the current Court appear hospitable to environmentalists. But Massachusetts v. EPA was another of the Court's many 5-4, bitterly divided rulings, with both Justice Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts dissenting from the majority. Those two happen to be the Justices whom McCain says he would like his possible future Court nominees to emulate. "One more conservative on the Court and [the Massachusetts] case would have likely gone the other way," says Kendall. "You have to think about what's going to happen to the composition of the Court over the next eight years...