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Rounding out the Ivy slate in the USILA poll, Yale is ranked 11th, Cornell is 12th, and Pennsylvania is 15th...
...liberal legislators beat back Ronald Reagan's nomination of the controversial conservative scholar to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now ideological forces are marshaling for another judicial confirmation battle. The focus is Federal District Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, 58, nominated by President Bush to fill a vacancy on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Florida. The Miami jurist will face a rugged reception this week at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, where opponents will try to block his confirmation on the ground that he is insensitive to civil rights...
...furor has as much to do with the nominee's prospective job as with his alleged insensitivity. The 12-member 11th Circuit, covering Florida, Georgia and Alabama, reversed Ryskamp rulings on civil-liberties issues eight times during his short judicial tenure. In Ryskamp's defense, Justice Department officials note that his civil rights record mirrors that of other federal judges. But that is largely a reflection of the fact that liberals are an "endangered species" on the federal bench, as Sheldon Goldman, a University of Massachusetts expert on the judiciary, puts...
...this weekend's games against Army (tonight) and Princeton (Saturday), there is both good and bad news for Harvard hockey fans. The good news, though, is 11th-ranked Army (6-12-3, 1-11-2) is not playing on the same emotional high as it did when the Cadets defeated the Crimson, according to Army Coach Rob Riley...
Environmentalists are sounding an 11th-hour warning about the explosives that Iraqi soldiers have planted around most of Kuwait's 700 oil wells and 21 processing plants. If those devices are set off, the subsequent conflagration could create "a nuclear-winter-like situation," asserts Paul Crutzen, director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Jordanian experts say the wells could burn 10 million bbl. of oil a day, releasing a vast cloud of black smoke into the stratosphere. Such a cloud has the potential to screen sunlight, reduce temperatures and damage crops throughout the northern hemisphere. Not all experts...