Word: writings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schwartz maintained his Harvard connections after he retired, coming to campus to write and converse with colleagues into late October...
White was recommended by the committee in July, over Ashcroft's objections, and a vilification campaign against White soon began in earnest. White, said Ashcroft, was a "judicial activist," one of that horrible breed of tyrants with gavels who try to re-write the law for their own purposes instead of interpreting it justly. As evidence, Ashcroft lambasted White for having voted 14 times to reverse a death penalty decision, proving that he was a protector of the guilty and against law and order. One Ashcroft fundraiser resigned in protest of the "marathon public crucifixion and misinformation campaign...
King County, Wash.: David Irons Jr. defeated his sister Di in a council race. She launched a write-in campaign after he beat her boss in the primaries. They live next door to each other...
...Canada, Britain and Australia, won't sit well with many stepparents. "Because parental love carries with it an onerous commitment, it would be strange if merely pairing up with someone who already had a dependent child were sufficient to fully engage the evolved psychology of parental feeling," they write. "And it is not sufficient. Stepparents do not, on average, feel the same child-specific love and commitment as genetic parents, and therefore do not reap the same emotional rewards from unreciprocated 'parental' investment." Violence, they say, is just one, albeit dramatic, consequence...
...season? Instead of donating that old coat, consider donating stocks. Donations of stock can beat coats or even cash. Charities can sell the shares of donated stocks tax-free, even if the price has doubled over your cost. And donors get breaks too: no capital-gains tax, and a write-off for the market value of the stock...