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...young woman with a huge yellow 'Choice' button pinned to her chest. He knows what's coming and he doesn't think twice. Ten minutes later, he chastises the moderator of the event, who is trying to steer the microphone away from another would-be critic, a University of Wisconsin student. "Let me direct the microphone, if you don't mind," shouts Keyes, his voice a mixture of fearsome preacher and irritated muppet...
...Throughout the question and answer period, the raised hands of the gray-shirted Keyes youth minions go unnoticed as the candidate takes on all challengers. After the speech, the University of Wisconsin student approaches the candidate and tells him that the microphone-handler was deliberately trying to avoid...
Alan C. Kors, who co-authored The Shadow University, a book exploring students' rights at universities, says that in light of a recent slew of court decisions that struck down the explicit speech codes at schools like Stanford and the University of Wisconsin, restrictions on expression have simply "gone underground...
Much was made last fall of Gore's decision to transplant his headquarters from downtown Washington to Nashville, Tennessee. But just as important was the quieter move of the campaign's central nervous system to another D.C. address, the Wisconsin Avenue consulting firm of Bob Shrum, Mike Donilon and Tad Devine, whose offices serve as Eskew's Beltway base of operation, complete with an exercise bike for the workout fanatic. Also pitching in is Bill Knapp, who wrote some of Clinton's 1996 advertising...
...treatment of grandparent-visitation laws in the courts has varied widely. In some states (including Georgia and Florida) they've been struck down. In others (including Kentucky and Wisconsin) they've been upheld. On the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative majority may like the idea of grandparent visitation--but they may not like the government intruding on families. One wild card: six of the nine Justices are grandparents...