Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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What ever happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state's manuscript when he left the statehouse...
...sidestep the problem, Congress can stay the President's hand by exercising another power found in Article I, Section 8: refusing to fund the war, as Congress eventually did in Vietnam. But the ultimate check on White House adventurism may be the one noted by the late American historian Clinton Rossiter: "The people with their overt or silent resistance, not the court with its power of judicial review, will set the only practical limits to arrogance of abuse...
...field of crime, women are achieving a dubious sort of equality with men. Mandatory minimum-sentencing laws passed in the late 1970s and early '80s have forced judges to hand out long sentences to women. Says Carole Laughton, an inmate of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, N.J.: "With equal opportunity and all that,we're getting longer time. It has hurt...
There is, however, one big exception to the camaraderie in women's prisons: older inmates cannot abide the "crack kids," brassy, street-smart young women in their late teens and early 20s. Dolores Barnes, 52, a three-time inmate in New Jersey's Clinton prison, launches into a classic what's-the-matter-with-kids-today tirade: "They can't cook, clean, wash clothes or take care of themselves. They have no respect for their elders and no obligation to their kids." These "animalescents," as other prisoners sometimes call them, often squabble among themselves. "There are a lot of fights...
Several students contacted said they were disappointed they would miss out on the women's history course. Laura Falk, a student in the secondary school program, said Clinton's coursewas one of the main reasons she applied to HarvardSummer School...