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...Obama's closing speech at Iowa's Jefferson Jackson dinner blows away the field...
...number of Reagan appointees climbed to a third of the 761 federal judgeships, opponents in Congress have started digging in their heels and building support. Two weeks ago, in the first such defeat for the Administration, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 to reject the nomination of Jefferson Sessions, 39, the U.S. Attorney in Mobile picked for a federal district court judgeship in Alabama. Witnesses said that Sessions had called the N.A.A.C.P. and several other civil rights groups ''un-American,'' and once remarked that he had thought Ku Klux Klan members were ''O.K.'' until he found out they...
...that will live in infamy,'' declared TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, referring to the Supreme Court's reaffirmation last week of Roe vs. Wade. Citing Thomas Jefferson, the Republican presidential aspirant called the high court an ''unelected oligarchy'' and assailed the Justices as ''despots.'' Some 1,200 delegates to the National Right to Life Committee's convention in Denver applauded warmly. Then came New York's Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, a more conventional politician and a virtually certain candidate for the 1988 presidential nomination. Kemp took a broader view, shunning personal attacks on the Justices and appealing for ''not just...
...department proposed a set of controversial regulations requiring child-protection agencies to police federally assisted hospitals and examine medical records to prevent willful neglect. Shortly before the regulations went into effect, a baby girl identified as Baby Jane Doe was born with severe birth defects in Port Jefferson, N.Y. After consulting doctors and other advisers, the infant's parents decided on a program...
...chose him--after a succession of Presidents: Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Kennedy, as well as explorers Lewis and Clark and inventor Ben Franklin--because he represents a vital tradition in American politics and culture: the comedic commentator on serious matters, the funnyman as our collective conscience who can utter uncomfortable truths that more solemn critics evade. In an election year when so many Americans are getting their news from nontraditional sources, Twain is the godfather of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as well as the comic voices who influenced them, from Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor to Kurt Vonnegut...