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...York's political importance flowed from people, money and publicity. The 1820 census found New York to be the most populous state, while by the mid--19th century New York City had passed Philadelphia and Boston as the financial and media capital of the country. Virginia, cradle of Jefferson and his followers, and Ohio, bastion of the post-- Civil War GOP, have elected more Presidents because of regional ties to a major party during its political heyday, but New York was the battleground state that both parties fought...
...After the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative-action plan in 2003, Michigan voters repudiated it in a referendum. "Any court on which Justice Kennedy is the median voter will never do anything to provoke dramatic backlashes," says Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, "because Justice Kennedy has his finger on the pulse of Middle America even more than Justice O'Connor did." In the last week of the term, Kennedy joined 5-4 opinions upholding the power of school principals to discipline students and limiting challenges to public funding...
...sentiments. With 1998's Roger & Me, he took on General Motors and no one listened, Moore said. Today, "they're near bankruptcy." With 2002's Bowling For Columbine, he tried to take on the culture of gun violence, and this year there was another deadly school shooting at Virginia Tech. With 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11, he took on a then-popular president and a then-popular war, and he said Bush's polls have plummeted ever since...
...current system, if people are dissatisfied with their plan, they can simply switch insurance carriers. No one denies the moral imperative for reform to provide health-care access to all Americans, but a single-payer system is not the answer. Janet Trautwein, CEO, National Association of Health Underwriters, Arlington, Virginia...
...Observers waited to see if a stampede of anxious institutions would follow Bok’s lead, but after public declarations by Yale’s Richard C. Levin and Stanford’s John W. Etchemendy, only two prominent schools followed: Princeton and the University of Virginia...