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Think about the issues in which the center of the court, defined by Kennedy, is now more conservative than it was with O'Connor. The federal ban on partial-birth abortion? Polls consistently show overwhelming support for it. Affirmative action? After the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative-action plan in 2003, Michigan voters repudiated it in a referendum. "Any court on which Justice Kennedy is the median voter will never do anything to provoke dramatic backlashes," says Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, "because Justice Kennedy has his finger...
...done a brilliant job on issues, but what's the campaign strategy?" asked one former City Hall insider. "He's wrong on guns for Ohio; he's wrong on cars for Michigan; he's pretty far left, except for Iraq - and I don't know where he is on that." A Quinnipiac poll puts him a distant third in a three-way race against Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in New York. "I know he won't want to be a spoiler," says former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who has endorsed Clinton in her primary - but has reserved...
...graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, Turner coached at Indiana and Western Michigan before joining the Crimson program...
...require utilities to produce at least 15% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020. The Senate Tuesday is expected to vote again on that provision - considered essential by environmental groups and most Democrats. Also this week, the Senate will vote on an amendment sponsored by Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that would weaken the fuel efficiency language in the bill. The current measure would require all vehicles to achieve 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Levin's alternative would give cars until 2022 to reach 36 miles per gallon, and light trucks (including SUVs, the only automobile category American...
...epithelial cells--closely packed, multilayered cells of which most solid tumors are made--they are oddballs in their new fluid environment. "It's like splitting a deck of cards into red and black suits," says Dr. Daniel Hayes, director of the breast-cancer program at the University of Michigan, about separating these epithelial tumor cells from the blood. "Blood is made up of different tissues, so we look for epithelial cells that shouldn't be there...