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To settle a lawsuit filed by Weaver and his three surviving daughters, the government agreed last week to pay them $3.1 million. Their lawyer, Gerry Spence, a sagebrush sage and best-selling author, says the settlement lets his clients avoid a trial that would require them to relive memories of...
I do not find it surprising that Brad Setser and other UC members quoted in your article support a wider use of the CUE to assess teaching fellows. Such a practice would represent a quick fix of "empowerment" to those students who care or are particularly disgruntled that would, in...
James claims that she "wasn't setting out to write a didactic novel," Yet the book has obvious moral overtones. She depicts a society in decay, and suggests that it can only be healed through irrational, selfless love. The Children of Men abounds in christological imagery, with a single child...
Now the man Buchanan reveres as his "spiritual guide" has taken Buchanan to the woodshed. In a 38,000-word essay in the National Review, William F. Buckley Jr., the godfather of conservatism, writes, "I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and...
In Florida, where the freeze was most brutal, growers who normally produce about 75% of the U.S. citrus crop (worth some $3.5 billion in 1989) had tried to prepare for the worst. They banked orange, lemon and grapefruit trees with extra dirt and fired up smudge pots to raise the...