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...even if the once white-hot debate over Critical Legal Studies has clamed, all is not necessarily quiet on the Law School front. Such approaches as feminism and "Law and Economics" as an approach to the law now divide law school professors and overshadow the appointments process...
...Through five heady years, the Great Society seemed to embody the full and resplendent maturity of liberalism, fending off the forces of reaction and ushering in a bright new day. In the ensuing decades, it came to look a lot more like liberalism's super-nova: a final, white-hot burst before its dark collapse...
Such success stories have created a white-hot market for ostriches, with some investors plopping down $100,000 or more to start farms. Today nearly 20,000 ostriches grace about 2,000 U.S. farms, up from a handful of farms a decade ago. Imports of live chicks have soared 500% in the past five years. Little wonder. A fertilized ostrich egg fetches $1,500, and a pair of breeding adults goes for around $40,000. With female ostriches laying upwards of 80 eggs a year, it takes just basic math to calculate astronomical returns...
...rival gang kidnapped his friend and tortured him to death. % They used electricity and white-hot knives, and they shot him in the face...
...hardheaded '90s. Today Duran Duran is history, and heavy metal is white-hot. Thanks to bands like Metallica, which sold 650,000 copies of its namesake album in the first week of its August release, every parent's worst nightmare has become a record executive's dream come true. Metallica entered Billboard's top-albums chart at No. 1 and stayed there for four weeks, spawning the hit single Enter Sandman. Even the critics are coming around. Rolling Stone awarded Metallica four stars in its review, calling it "an exemplary album of mature but still kickass rock & roll...