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Harvard graduates are known to excel in their fields. Some become President of the United States or president of a major news network. Wade Davis ’75 also excels in his field. He is National Geographic’s Explorer-In-Residence. What, exactly, does that entail? FM called him up to talk about the job. FM: How do you decide which places you will visit? WD: Generally what I’m trying to do is find stories that will allow for deeper stories that reveal the unique manifestation of the human heart. We?...
...Fans vs. Miss Manners The Fan Man parachutes onto the ropes during the Bowe-Holyfield brawl. University of Wisconsin partisans run amuck after their football team beats Michigan. New Orleans quarterback Wade Wilson collapses in pain with a knee injury, and the hometown boors cheer. Now behave, people, or we'll send Vince Coleman after...
...when the appeals court judge was considering Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. That case, involving Pennsylvania laws that placed obstacles in the way of women seeking an abortion, would eventually be addressed in a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision that essentially upheld Roe v. Wade. Though the Court agreed with Alito and the other two judges from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, there was one key difference. Alito argued for upholding a law requiring married women to notify their husbands before getting an abortion, a decision that's getting a lot of scrutiny now as people...
...know they can't." The blockades crippled local trade and boosted inflation in Gambia, which imports much of its fuel and other goods from Senegal. And it cut off access to Gambia's sea port, through which goods flow to neighbors such as Mali and Guinea. Senegalese President Abdulaye Wade suggested that his country should buy its own ferry to use on the River Gambia - or even tunnel under its neighbor. There are many longer tunnels in the world, Wade said, and China had already offered to help dig one here. Earlier this month, regional power Nigeria stepped...
Whatever one thinks about the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, there can be little doubt of its judicial aggressiveness. At the time, the abortion issue, although hardly unsung, had been debated fully in only a few state legislatures. By grabbing the case, locating a previously unspecified right to abortion in the Constitution and telling the states to respect that right, the Justices effectively defined the issue and pre-empted a legislative solution. The result: the court was stuck particularizing its position for the next 20 years...